REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS ON PLOTS OF OATS, ^ ACRE ~EACH.-Conti7iaed. 



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Fertilizers applied each Year, from 18S9 to 

 1898 or 1899. No fertilizers used since. 

 Clover sown in 1899 and each year since 

 with the grain and ploughed under in the 

 Autumn. 



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acre 



Unmanured from the beginning 



Bone, linely ground, 500 lbs. per 

 used each year from 1888 to 1899,inclusive. 

 No fertilizers have been applied since then. 



Bone, finely ground, 500 lbs. ; wood ashes, 

 unleached, 1,500 lbs. per acre, used each 

 year from 1888 to 1899, inclusive. No 

 fertilizers have been applied since then . . 



Nitrate of soda, 200 lbs. per acre, used each 

 year from 1888 to 1899, inclusive. No 

 fertilizers have been applied since then . . 



Muriate of potash, 150 lbs. per acre, used 

 each year from 1888 to 1899, inclusive. 

 No fertilizers have been applied since then. 



Sulphate of ammonia, 300 lbs. per acre, used 

 each year from 1888 to 1849; inclusive. 

 No fertilizer * have been applied since then. 

 18'Sulphate of iron, 60 lbs. per acre, used each 

 year from 1SS8 to 1S99, inclusive. No 

 fertilizers have been applied since then. . 



Common salt (Sodium chloride) 300 lbs. per 

 acre, used each year from 1888 to 1899, 

 inclusive. No fertilizers have been applied 

 since then 



Land plaster or gypsum (Calcium sulphate) 

 300 lbs. per acre, used each year from 1888 

 to 1899, inclusive. No fertilizers have been 

 applied since then 



Mineral superphosphate, No. 2, 500 lbs. per 

 acre, used each year from 1889 to 1899, 

 inclusive. No fertilizers have been applied 

 since then , 



INDIAN CORN PLOTS. 



The experiments with the plots of Indian corn have been conducted with the ob- 

 ject of obtaining the largest weight of well matured green fodder for the silo, and to 

 have the corn so far advanced when cut, that the ears shall be as far as is practicable in 

 the late milk, or glazed condition. Each plot has been divided from the outset into two 

 equal parts, on one of which — known as No. 1 — one of the stronger growing and some- 

 what later ripening sorts has been tried, and on the other, marked No. 2, one of the 

 earlier maturing varieties. During the first four years one of the Dent varieties was 

 tested under No. 1. The Mammoth Southern Sweet was tried in 1888, 1889 and 1890. 

 In 1891 the Eed Cob Ensilage was used, and in 1892, 1S93, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 

 1899 and 1901 a free growing Flint variety, the Rural Thoroughbred White Flint, was 

 tested. On the other half of the plot (No. 2) the Canada Yellow Flint was used in 

 18S8, 1889 and 1890, the Thoroughbred White Flint in 1891, Pearce's Prolific in 1892, 

 1893 and 1894, and the Mammoth Eight Rowed Flint in 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 

 and 1901. For the first four years the No. 1 series was planted in drills 3 feet apart, 



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