RETORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSON 



337 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Sixty-four varieties of oats were sown in uniform plots of one-fortieth acre each 

 on May 1. The soil was a clay loam, and was previously in mangels, having been ma- 

 nured for that crop with 30 one-horse cart loads of manure per acre, which was put on 

 in the spring of 1900, and to which 200 pounds of complete fertilizer was added be- 

 fore the rows were run up for the crop. The land was ploughed after the mangel crop 

 was removed in the fall of 1900, and this spring was worked up by going over it twice 

 with the spring-tooth harrow and once with the smoothing harrow. No fertilizer of 

 any kind was used for the grain crop. 



The seed was sown at the rate of 2 J bushels per acre with the Wisner seed drill. 

 The field was seeded down to clover and timothy at the rate of 3 pounds of alsike, 7 

 pounds mammoth red clover and 12 pounds timothy seed per acre. This seed was 

 sown with an attachment to the seeder at the same time the grain was sown. The crop 

 of straw was generally good, and stood up well. It was bright and free from rust. 

 The majority of the plots had some smutty heads in them, but none were badly affected. 

 The results obtained from this test are given in the following table :— 



Oats — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Date 



of 

 Ripening. 



Cream Egyptian 



Cromwell 



Rosedale 



Abyssinia 



American Beauty 



Oderbi uch 



White Schonen 



Early Golden Prolific . . . 



Flying Scotchman 



Black Mesdag 



Black Beauty 



Siberian 



Improved American.... 



Bavarian 



Lincoln 



Pense .... 



Ha/.lett's Seizure 



Prolific Black Tartarian. 



Mennonite 



White Giant 



Newmarket 



16—22 



1 AlK 



16. 

 22. 

 10 '. 

 17. 

 18. 

 16. 

 15. 

 10. 

 10. 



6. 



9. 

 18. 

 18. 

 18. 

 18. 

 16. 

 10. 

 18. 

 18. 

 16. 

 18. 



>. fcel : 



n- .IS 



y. 



107 

 113 

 101 

 108 

 109 

 107 

 106 

 101 

 101 

 97 

 loo: 

 109 

 10$) 

 109 

 100 

 107| 

 101 

 109 

 108 

 107 

 109 



be 



hi 



OS 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



In. 



45 Stiff 



48 



46 

 47 

 45 

 46 Medium. 



44 Stiff 

 40 i .. . 

 40 : Medium. 



4.-» Stiff 



41 

 44 

 48 

 40 

 45 

 45 

 40 

 40 

 45 

 44 



45 J 



T3 

 o o> 



bo 



c 



hi 



7 to 9 

 „ 9 

 6 n 9 

 6 „ 9 



6 m 8 

 i, 8 

 „ 8 



7 .. 9 

 6 „ 9 



6 ., S 



7 ..10 



6 .. 8 



7 .. 9 

 7 n 9 



6 „ 8 



7 -, 9 

 „ 9 



M ... .jO M 9 



.. C n 8 



i, 8 



Medium.. 1 7 ■■ 9 



In. 



Kind 



of 

 Head. 



Sided 



H ... 



ii .... 



n .... 

 Blanching 

 Sided..... 

 Branching 



Sided...... 



Branching. 



Sided. 



Branching. 



O «8 

 bti 



'S 



Lbs. 



5,200 

 0,000 

 5,000 

 5,480 

 4,800 

 5,000 

 5,000 

 4,400 

 5,000 

 4,000 

 5,000 

 4,200 

 4,800 

 5,0i0 

 4,800 

 4,800 

 4,000 

 5,400 

 4,400 

 4,280 



Yield 



per 

 Acre. 



js 



tn 



3 



fa 

 76 

 74 

 71 

 68 

 08 

 68 

 68 

 67 

 67 

 65 

 65 

 65 

 05 

 65 

 04 

 64 

 63 

 63 

 63 

 63 



5,000 63 



hi 



16 



4 



26 



8 

 8 

 8 

 8 

 2 



o 



30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 24 

 24 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 



sb* 



a 



,3 

 hi 



40 



36 



40 



40 



37 



38 



34 



35 



40 



34 



34 



35 



30 



37 



37 



37 



39 



35 



34 



30 



36 



