REPORT OF TTLE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



select list of oats — Concluded. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Sixty-seven different sorts of barley have been under test at the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm during 1901. Thirty of these have been two-rowed sorts, and thirty- 

 seven six-rowed. The land on which the barley was sown, adjoined that used for oats, 

 and was of the same character and quality and had similar manuring and preparation. 

 The size of the plots was one-fortieth of an acre each. The two-rowed sorts were sown 

 at the rate of two bushels per acre, and the six-rowed at the rate of one and three- 

 quarter bushels per acre. The seed of nearly all these varieties of barley, both two- 

 rowed and six-rowed was obtained from selected heads picked by hand, the largest and 

 plumpest being chosen. 



Among the two-rowed sorts there are six new varieties this year. Oregon received 

 from the United States, Bestehorn's Raiser and Fitchel Mountain from Germany, 

 Plumage from Norway and Standwell and Invincible, two varieties recently introduced 

 by the Garton Bros., Newton-le-Willows, England. In this group are also included 

 the following seventeen hybrid sorts, all of which have been produced at the experi- 

 mental farms. Beaver, Bolton, Clifford, Dunham, Eulton, Gordon, Harvey, Jarvis, 

 Leslie, Logan. Monc-k, Nepean, Pacer, Pelham, Rigid, Sidney and Victor. 



