REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



21 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Name of Variety, 



Date 



of 



Sowing , 



Date of 

 Ripen- 

 ing. 



bo 



w a 

 t>vr 



o 



Length 



of 

 Straw. 



Inches. 



Kind of 

 Head. 



Yield 

 per 

 Acre. 



Bus. Lbs 



Rusted. 



BARLEY SOWN IN DIFFERENT QUANTITIES PER ACRE ON SANDY LOAM SOIL. 



Mensury 1^ bush 



per acre 



Mensury 2 bush 



per acre 



Mensury 2\ bush 



per acre 



Mensury 3 bush 



per acre 



Mensury 2>\ bush 



per acre 



Mensury 4 bush 



per acre 



„ 29 



.. 29 



„ 29 



,. 29 



,. 29 



., 29 



22 

 22 

 22 

 22 

 22 

 22 



84 

 84 

 84 

 84 

 84 

 84 



39—41 

 39—41 

 39—41 

 39-41 

 39-41 

 36—38 



Stiff. 



Medium 



3-3£ 



3 — 3£ 

 3 -3J 

 3 -3i 

 3 -3J 



S -3£ 



None. 



BARLEY SOWN IN DIFFERENT QUANTITIES PER ACRE ON CLAY LOAM SOIL. 



Mensury \\ bush. 



per acre 



Mensury 2 bush. 



per acre 



Mensury 1\ bush. 



per acre 



Mensury 3 bush. 



per acre.. 

 Mensury 3^ bush. 



pei acre 



Mensury 4 bush. 



per acre 



Stiff. 



Medium . 

 Weak . . . 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEASE. 



Sixty-one varieties of pease have been under trial in the uniform test plots during 

 the past season. The soil on which these pease were sown was a sandy loam, which 

 received a dressing of barn-yard manure" during the winter of 1898-9 of about 12 tons 

 per acre. The previoiis crop was oats. After the oats were taken off the land was 

 cultivated shallow shortly after harvest to start shed grain and weed seeds, and plough- 

 ed again later in the autumn about 8 inches deep, and left in this condition until the 

 following spring, when it was cultivated twice with a two-horse cultivator and twice 

 with a smoothing harrow. The seed of all the varieties was sown on April 29 on plots 

 of one-fortieth of an acre each, at the rate of two to three bushels per acre according 

 to the size of the pea. 



