REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



35 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Plot 3. Sown in rows 35 inches apart; growth strong, well podded; height 49 to 

 Plot all standing, stalks stiff. The beans were nearly ripe when cut. Total 

 yield, 8 tons 400 pounds per acre. Yield of beans, 20 bushels 6 pounds per acre. 



53 inches. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MILLETS. 



Nine varieties of millet were sown on plots of one-fortieth acre each in drills 

 seven inches apart. The soil was a light sandy loam. The previous crop was potatoes. 

 The land receiving a dressing of barn-yard manure during the winter of 1899 and 1900 

 of about 12 tons per acre. After the potatoes were dug the land was ploughed to the 

 depth of seven or eight inches, and left in that condition till the following spring, when 

 it was cultivated once with a two-horse cultivator and twice with a smoothing harrow 

 before sowing. The seed was sown with a Planet Junior seed drill, and all the varie- 

 ties were sown on May 6. These were all cut when the seed was in the doughy stage. The 

 two varieties under numbers were received for trial from the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington. 



MILLETS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



— 



Name of Variety. 



Cat-tail 



Pearl 



White Round Extra French 



Moha Hungarian 



Japanese 



German or Golden 



Italian or Indian 



No. 5647 (Dept. Agr., Wash., U.S.A.). 

 No. 5048 ( ii ii ii ) . 



Date 

 Cut. 



Sept. 23. 

 Aug. 27. 



July 27 



ii 27. 

 Aug. 27. 



■i 27. 



.. 27. 



„ 12. 



ii 12. 



Length 

 of 



Straw. 



Inches. 



GO— 05 

 32-38 

 63—65 

 48—50 

 53—55 

 48—50 

 43—46 

 34-36 

 34-36 



Character 



of 

 Growth. 



Strong. 



Medium. 



Weight 



per Acre, 



Green. 



Tons. Lbs. 



17 



16 



11 



10 



9 



8 



7 



6 



6 



1040 



1920 



1040 



1760 



560 



1920 



1680 



800 



480 



Weight 



per Acre, 



Dry. 



Tons. Lbs. 



8 

 8 

 5 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 3 

 3 



1280 



1280 



1520 



240 



640 



1920 



1300 



720 



400 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MIXED ROOTS AND WITn MIXED ROOTS AND 



VEGETABLES. 



Eour plots were sown with mixtures of field roots, and one with carrots, cabbages 

 and tomatoes to see how far a farmer could thus supply himself with such material for 

 his own use at very little cost and labour. 



Four rows were sown in each case about 100 feet long and two feet apart, the seed 

 was sown about the usual thickness and the plants subsequently thinned. About equal 

 parts by weight of seed was used in all the plots, excepting No. 5, where it was used in 

 about equal proportions by measure. Any undue proportion of young plants of any 

 sort can be regulated when the thinning is done. They were all sown May 8, and the 

 roots were pulled October 30. The vegetables were gathered about the middle of Sep- 

 tember. 



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