REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Summary of Kesults for Three Years. 



405 



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Variety. 



1899. 



1 Soja Beans 



2 Tease, Golden Vine 



3 Pares 



4 Red Clover. .... 



5 Alfalfa and Alsike 



6 Wheat— Red Fife . 

 7; Wheat .< 



8 Wheat •• 



9 Wheat 



10 Wheat » 



11 Oats — Bavarian . . . 

 12| Wheat-Red Fife. 



13 Oats — Bavarian . . 



14 Wheat— Red Fife. 



15 Barley — Odessa.. . . 



16 Wheat— Red Fife. 



17 Wheat 



18 Wheat 



19 Wheat 



20 Wheat 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



-Ploughed 

 under. 



27 

 29 

 27 

 21 

 26 

 27 

 27 

 26 

 27 

 38 

 28 

 29 

 24 

 26 

 27 



44 



8 



2 







54 



44 



20 



46 



30 



38 



8 



16 



2 



32 



12 



Variety. 



1900. ■ 



Wheat— Red Fife... 

 Wheat H .... 

 Wheat 

 Wheat ii 

 Wheat .. 



Oats — Banner 



Wheat— Red Fife... 



Oats — Banner 



Wheat-Red Fife... 



Barley — Odessa 



Soja Beans \ 



Pease, Golden Vine 



Taies - 



Red Clover 



Alfalfa and Alsike. J 

 Wheat— Red Fife... 



Oats— Banner 



Earley — Odessa 



Wheat— Red Fife... 

 Barley, Odessa . . . , 



Variety. 



1901. 



Oats— Banner 



Wheat- Red Fife., 



Oats — Banner 



Wheat— Red Fife.. 

 Barley — Mensury.. 



Soja Beans 



Pease, Golden Vine 



Tares 



Red Clover. ....... 



Alfalfa and Alsike. 

 Wheat— Red Fife 

 Wheat H 

 Wheat ii 

 Wheat H 

 Wheat 

 Summer-fallow .. . 



Oats — Banner. 

 Oats ii 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



70 

 38 

 73 

 38 

 37 



2 

 54 

 24 

 40 



2 



Ploughed 



under. 



38 

 37 

 39 

 25 

 28 



51 

 55 



18 

 6 

 22 

 18 

 42 



30 



Summary. 



Although further time will be required before any definite conclusions can be 

 drawn regarding the principal object of this experiment, there are already some sug- 

 gestive results. 



Better returns were obtained in both this and last year from ploughing under 

 annual leguminous crops than from ploughing under clovers. 



Plots one and three have each given more pounds of the same kind of grain in 

 two years than No. 19 has in three years. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Generally speaking, the oat crop throughout the province is above the average. 

 On the Experimental Farm the yield has been good and the straw stiff, but the sample, 

 owing to rust, is somewhat lighter than usual. 



All the seed was treated with formalin, and there was a total absence of smut. 



The newly introduced ' Tartar King Oat ' is a new white, sided variety with a 

 remarkably stiff straw, and very handsome in appearance, but the yield, both in the 

 field and the smaller plots, is somewhat disappointing. ^ m 



Another distinct new variety is ' Goldfinder Oats.' It has a somewhat thin and 

 yellow oat, with a good stiff straw. The yield this year was better than that of the 

 Tartar King, but not equal to many of the other varieties. 



Average yields of twelve of the most promising varieties are also given. It will 

 be noticed that Banner leads in productiveness. 



The tests were made with sixty-five varieties, on plots of one-twentieth acre each. 

 The soil was a sandy loam, summer-fallowed, and 2 bushels of seed was used per acre, 

 sown with a drill. 



Salzer's Big 4 and Milford were sown on June 1, and all the other varieties from 



May 10 to 13. 



