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EXPERIMENTAL FARM8 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 



1897 (No. 29). Similar results with added experience have been published in the 

 annual crop bulletin each year since, the results for the seventh year, 1901, having 

 recently appeared in bulletin No. 39. In these bulletins the six or twelve sorts found 

 most productive on each farm have been specially noted. All those varieties which 

 during five years' trial do not find their way at any time into these lists of the best 

 sorts at any of the experimental farms are dropped from the list at the end of that 

 period to make room for other new and promising kinds. Occasionally where a variety 

 of grain shows some radical defect, such as persistent weakness of straw, it is discarded 

 after a shorter trial. By this method the lists are kept within reasonable limits. 



The following sorts of oats have been thus dropped during the past two or three 

 years: — Coulommier's, Doncaster Prize, Early Dawson, Early Etampes, Imported Irish, 

 Medal, Mortgage Lifter, Poland, Prize Cluster, Rennie's Prize, Scotch Hopetoun, 

 Welcome, White Monarch, White Wonder, Winter Grey. Some of the varieties so 

 discarded from the uniform trial plots are still continued in the general list grown at 

 some of the experimental farms in the discretion of the superintendent. .. 



In the following list of oats the average yield per acre at all the experimental 

 farms is given of all the varieties which have been under trial for three years or over. 

 The periods reported on range from three to seven years. 



SELECT LIST OF VARIETIES OF OATS. 



