REPORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSOY 



343 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BUCKWHEAT. 



Eive varieties of buckwheat were under test. These plots were one-fortieth acre 

 each. The land was a clay loam in a very poor state of fertility. The previous crops 

 were grown without stable manure. The land was ploughed in the spring, and worked 

 up twice with the springtooth and once with the smoothing harrow. The seed was 

 sown June 6 with the Wisner seed drill and complete fertilizer at the rate of 100 

 pounds per acre was drilled in with the seed. The crop was harvested August 30. The 

 warm dry weather seemed to cause this crop to shrink very much, much of the seed not 

 being fdled. The following yields per acre were obtained : — 



BUCKWHEAT— TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Date of 

 Sowing. 



Silver-hull June Cth. 



Tartarian, or Siberian n 



Grey " 



Rye Buckwheat m 



Japanese.. ■■ 



Date of 

 Ripening. 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



3 



PQ 



16 



14 



13 



13 



12 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH EIELD GEAIX. 



Six plots of grain of one-half acre each were grown to further test the value of 

 different varieties in field trials. Five of these plots were sown with different sorts of 

 oats, and one with mixed grain made up as follows: — Oats, 2 bushels; barley, 1 bushel; 

 pease, 1 peck, mixed and sown at the rate of 3 bushels per acre. 



The land was a light loam, having corn as a previous crop. It was manured for 

 the corn crop in the spring of 1900, with 25 one-horse cart loads of stable manure per 

 acre, and after the corn crop was removed the land was ploughed. This was worked 

 up in the spring time with the springtooth and once with the smoothing harrow. The 

 seed was sown May 10, at the rate of 3 bushels per acre. It was harvested August 14. 

 The following yields were obtained: — 



Varieties. 



Rosedale 



White Schonen . 

 Cream Egyptian 

 Black Tartarian. 



Sensation 



Mixed Grain 



EIELD CROP OF OATS OX MARSH. 



Twelve acres of marsh were ploughed in the fall of 1900. It was worked up in the 

 spring by going over it twice with the spade harrow; twice with the springtooth, and 



