52'. 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 

 Oats. — Tests 'with Fertilizers. 



Six plots of Banner oats, one-fortieth of an acre each, were included in this test. 

 The land was a gravelly loam, that had given a crop of wheat in 1900, following clover. 



Plot 1. — One hundred pounds nitrate of soda per acre, one-half sown broadcast 

 when the plants were well above the ground and the other half when they were about 

 G inches high. 



Plot 2. — Two hundred pounds nitrate of soda per acre ; one-half applied broadcast 

 when the plants were well above ground and the other half when about 6 inches high. 



Plot 3. — Check plot no fertilizer applied. 



Plot 4. — Four hundred pounds superphosphate of lime per acre, scattered broad- 

 cast and lightly harrowed before the seed was sown. 



Plot 5. — Four hundred pounds muriate of potash per acre ; sown broadcast and 

 harrowed before the seed was sown. 



Plot G. — Two hundred pounds superphosphate of lime, 100 pounds muriate of 

 potash, and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. Half of the material scattered 

 over the surface before the seed was sown and the other half when the plants were 

 about 2 inches above ground. 



All the conditions as to soil and seed were identical. All were sown April 21, 

 using seed at the rate of 2| bushels per acre. All the plots ripened together and were 

 cut the same day. There was no rust on any of the plots. 



Pease. — Tests with Fertilizers. 



Four plots of pease, of one-twentieth of an acre each, were sown April 15, and when 

 the plants were about 2 inches above ground nitrate of soda, at the rate of 100 pounds 

 per acre, was scattered broadcast over the plot, and when they were about G inches high 

 another 100 pounds was applied as before. 



The soil was a very gravelly loam, that was first broken up in the winter of ISO!) 

 and 1900, and pease sown in spring of 1900, but they were destroyed by cutworms. 

 This year the vines grew very rank in eacli case and were extra well podded. The 

 results are given in the following table : — 



Name of Variety. 



King 



German White, 

 Perth 



Centennial 



Date 



of 



Sowing. 



April 15. 



,. 15. 



,. 15. 



ii 15. 



Date 

 of 



Ripening. 



Aug. 24. 

 .. 21. 

 n 23. 

 i. 24. 



<s 5 



O rt 



ft 



131 

 128 

 130 

 131 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Busk 



Lbs. 

 20 



10G 



102 



94 40 

 1)0 40 



5*a 



Lbs. 



fill 



<>2 

 0! 

 Gl 



