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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 

 Oats. — Effect of using different quantities of seed per acre. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Eifty-two varieties of barley have been under trial, 22 of which were two-rowed 

 sorts and thirty six-rowed. 



They were all sown at the rate of two bushels per acre April 17, on plots of one- 

 fortieth of an acre with seed from heads selected from the experimental plots of the 

 previous year. The soil was a gravelly loam and fairly uniform. 



Eour plots of two-rowed and the same number of six-rowed varieties were sown 

 with unselected, but carefully cleaned seed. When the barley was nearly ripe there 

 were a few days of bright, hot sunshine which ripened the plots nearly all together, 

 but an improvement in the appearance of the crops from selected seed over the ordi- 

 nary seed was apparent from the time all were headed out. There was no rust on any 

 of the plots. 



Six plots alongside were sown with Mensury to compare the results from using 

 different quantities of seed per acre. 



Two-rowed Barley. — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Beaver August 7 



Prize Prolific 



Stand well 



Leslie 



Nepean 



Newton 



French Chevalier. 



Logan 



Harvey 



Kinver Chevalier. 



Bolton 



•Jarvis 



Canadian Thorpe 



Dunham 



Ki rby 



Danish Chevalier. 



Gordon 



Clifford 



Victor 



Fulton 



Sidney 



Invincible 



14 



12 



10 



10 



8 



13 



6 



6 



12 



7 



6 



10 



i 



i 



10 



8 



6 



10 



7 

 12 

 13 



>> bo 



rt s 

 fi-B 



•*- 3 



112 

 119 

 117 

 115 

 115 

 113 

 118 

 111 

 111 

 117 

 112 

 111 

 US 

 112 

 112 

 115 

 113 

 111 

 115 

 112 

 117 

 118 



i-5 



Ins. 



42 



40 

 44 

 46 

 46 

 42 

 42 

 43 

 42 

 40 

 42 

 40 

 42 

 41 

 42 

 36 

 46 

 42 

 38 

 44 

 40 

 40 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Stiff. 



Medium. 



Stiff.... 

 Weak . . 

 Medium. 



Stiff; . . . 



Medium. 



Stiff 



M . . . . 



H . . . . 



Medium , 

 Stiff 



S3 Eg 



Ins. 



bo ; 



X 



Yield 



per 

 Acre. 



Lbs. Bu. Lbs 



61 

 59 

 55 

 52 

 52 

 51 

 51 

 51 

 51 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 47 

 47 

 46 

 46 

 45 

 38 

 37 

 34 



8 

 40 

 46 

 24 

 42 

 42 

 12 



2 



40 

 40 

 40 

 20 



24 

 4 



32 

 22 

 40 

 16 

 44 



bc£ 



Lbs. 



48J 



48i 



49 



48f 



49 



48 



494 



48 V 



484 



49" 



48$ 



49 



48 



484 



4S 



494 



48$ 



48 



48 



48 



48 



