REPORT OF MR, R. ROBERTSON 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



wheat — test of varieties — Concluded. 



EXPEKIMEXTS WITH PEASE. 



Eifty-seven varieties of pease were sown on one-fortieth acre plots on May 2. The 

 previous crop grown on this laud was turnips, which received 18 one-horse cart loads 

 of stable manure, and 200 pounds complete fertilizer per acre. The land was ploughed 

 after the turnip crop was taken off, and this spring was worked up by going over it 

 twice with the springtooth and once with the smoothing harrow. 



The soil was a clay loam. No fertilizer was used for this crop. Timothy and 

 clover seed at the rate of 3 pounds alsike, 7 pounds mammoth red clover ,and 12 pounds 

 timothy per acre was sown with the grain. 



The pea aphis was not troublesome this season, and has apparently disappeared. 

 The results obtained from these tests are as follows :— 



