EEPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD 



409 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Average Results of a Five Years' Test of Twelve Varieties of Barley. 



Name of Variety. 



Years included. 



Mensury , 



Trooper 



Common 



Phoenix 



Nugent 



Excelsior 



Stella 



Royal 



Champion 



Bolton 



Newton 



Danish Chevalier 



1890-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 

 1890-97-98-99-1901 

 189G-97-98-99-1901 

 1890-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 

 1890-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 

 1896-97-98-99-1901 



Field Plots of Barley. 



All these were sown on summer-fallow ; soil clay-loam ; sown at the rate of two 

 bushels of seed per acre. 



Smut Preventives for Barley. 



This grain has been found the most difficult of all to treat successfully for smut. 

 In certain seasons it seems very difficult to destroy the spores of this fungus. Prom 

 the accompanying table in will be seen that the best results have been obtained this 

 season from treatment with bluestone (sulphate of copper). 



It is claimed that formalin gives the best results when the grain is covered with 

 canvas_for some hours after treatment, but judging from a comparison of plots Xol 

 3 and No. 4, there was no apparent benefit from this method. 



A series of experiments was also conducted in testing preventives of smut in 

 wheat and oats, but all the plots, both treated and untreated, were this year equally 

 free from smut. 



Name of Variety. 



How Treated. 



Good 



Heads 



on 9 sq. ft. 



Phoenix Barley 



Steeped for 1 hour, in 1 lb. bluestone to 3 pails water, and dried. . 



■i M 44 oz. formalin to 10 galls, water, and dried. 

 Sprinkled with 9 oz. formalin to 10 galls, water, and dried 



11 9 11 11 covered 



11 1 lb. bluestone to 1 pail of water, and dried 



475 

 480 

 440 

 400 

 410 



Smutty 



Heads 



on 9 sq. ft. 



2 

 52 

 35 

 36 

 00 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEASE. 



The yield of pease this year was not quite an average one, but the sample was 

 excellent, and with the exception of four varieties, the experiment was a very success- 

 ful test of varieties. 



