314 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 



once with the smoothing harrow. The seed was sown broadcast by hand at the rate of 

 3£ bushels per acre. The grain was sown and harrowed in with the springtooth har- 

 row, after which clover and timothy, at the rate of 3 pounds alsike, 7 pounds mammoth 

 red clover, and 12 pounds timothy seed per acre were sown and worked up by going over 

 it once with the smoothing harrow. Xo fertilizer of any kind was used. Eight acres 

 of this were sown May 20, and yielded at the rate of 35 bushels per acre. 



Another four acres were low, wet marsh, which made it difficult to work, and seed- 

 ing was not done on it until June 5. The land was worked in a manner similar to the 

 other marsh and seeded at the same rate. The yield from this was at the rate of 20 

 bushels per acre. 



Owing to the dry season the straw was very short, and the yield very light. That 

 grown on the low, wet land was also badly injured with rust. 



FIELD CROPS OF MIXED GEAIX OX UPLAXD. 



The grain used in this field was made up as follows: — Oats, 2 bushels; barley, 1 

 bushel; pease, 1 peck, mixed together and sown at the rate of three bushels per acre. 

 The seed was sown May 11 and harvested August IT. 



The soil was a light clay loam. The previous crop was turnips, and the land re- 

 ceived for this crop, IS one-horse cart loads of manure and 200 pounds complete fer- 

 tilizer per acre. Xo fertilizer of any kind was used with the grain crop. The yield 

 per acre was 50 bushels. 



FIELD CROP OF BUCKWHEAT. 



Ten acres of buckwheat was grown on land which was in a poor state of fertility. 

 The previous crop was buckwheat, seeded to clover. The clover made a very poor 

 growth. The land was ploughed in the spring, and worked up with the disc, spring- 

 tooth and smoothing harrows. It was seeded to silver-hull buckwheat, June 20, at the 

 rate of 1 bushel per acre. Owing to the hot dry weather the crop blighted, and did not 

 till out well. 



The yield from this field was 12G bushnls. 



Five acres of land, which was also in a poor state of fertility, having previously a 

 crop of buckwheat, seeded down with clover, was sown June 20 to silver-hull buckwheat 

 at the rate of 1 bushel per acre, and Albert Thomas Phosphate at the rate of 200 pounds 

 per acre was sown with the seed by means of the fertilizer, attachment on the seeder. 

 The yield from this fit hi was S4 bushels. This field did not blight nearly so badly as 

 the 10 acres, due possibly to being later sown, and the blossoming period escaping the 

 hot weather. 



EXPEEIMEXTS WITH INDIAN CORN. 



The soil on which the corn plots were laid out was a clay loam. The previous crop 

 was timothy. The land was manured in the fall of 1900 on the sod, with 20 one-horse 

 cart loads of barn-yard manure per acre. This manure together with a good crop of 

 grass was ploughed under June 1, 1901. The land was worked with the disc harrow 

 once, and once with the smoothing harrow. Marks were made 3 feet apart, and the 

 seed dropped in the rows, after which it was covered with the hoe by hand. Duplicate 

 plots were also sown in hills 3 feet apart. 



The seed was sown June 3, and the crop was harvested September 27. Xo chemical 

 fertilizers were used on these plots. The yield per acre is estimated from the crop 

 obtained from two rows, each 06 feet long. Thirty-four varieties were included in thf> 

 test, and the following results were obtained: — 



