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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



SIX-ROWED BARLEY TEST OP VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



1 Odessa ... , . . . . 



2 Pioneer 



3 Mansfield 



4 Mensury 



5 Trooper 



6 Royal 



7 Oderbruch 



8 Argyle 



9 Empire 



10 Rennie's Improved 



11 SteUa 



12 Success 



13 Vanguard 



14 Petschora 



15 Nugent , . . . 



16 Albert 



17 Blue Barley 



18 Summit 



19 Phoenix 



20 Excelsior 



21 Champion 



22 Common 



23 Surprise 



24 Claude 



25 Monde (hulless) . . . 



26 Baxters 



27 Brome. 



28 Yale 



29 Garfield. 



Date 

 of 

 Ripen- 

 ing. 



July 



o ca 



12; 



27 

 26 

 27 

 30 

 26 

 25 

 26 

 27 

 27 

 25 

 24 

 22 

 24 

 24 

 30 

 30 

 24 

 26 

 25 

 25 

 26 

 25 

 27 

 26 

 24 

 27 

 30 

 30 

 27 



87 

 86 

 88 

 90 

 86 

 85 

 86 

 87 

 87 

 85 

 84 

 82 

 84 

 84 

 90 

 91 

 84 

 86 

 85 

 85 

 86 

 85 

 87 

 87 

 84 

 87 

 90 

 90 

 87 



Length 



of 

 Straw. 



Inches. 



Length 



of 

 Head. 



Inches. 



36 to 

 41 to 



44 to 



45 to 

 52 to 

 33 to 

 39 to 

 36 to 



39 to 

 38 to 

 36 to 



40 to 

 36 to 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



u 



Bush. Lbs. 



54 3 



50 40 



49 24 



49 18 



48 41 



48 6 



48 6 



47 34 



47 9 



46 26 



45 25 



44 15 



44 13 



43 36 



43 6 



43 1 



42 34 



41 37 



41 11 



40 40 



40 10 

 40 



38 12 



37 

 36 

 35 

 33 



32 26 

 30 45 



Lbs 



Proportion Rusted. 



Considerably. 

 Slightly. 



Considerably. 

 Slightly. 



Considerably. 

 Slightly. 



Considerably. 

 Slightly. 



Considerably. 

 Slightly. 



Included in this list of varieties of six-rowed barley there are seventeen new hybrid 

 sorts which have been produced at the experimental farms. The names and parentage 

 of 15 of these were given in the annual report for 1896, the two now added are 16 

 Vanguard and 17 Surprise. These were originated in 1889, at the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm at Ottawa, by the Director and are both hybrids between Swedish 

 (two-rowed) female with Baxter's (six-rowed) male. 



FIELD CROPS OP SIX-ROWED BARLEY. 



Royal. — 2 1 acres. Soil a sandy loam, rather light in character, which received a 

 coating of barn -yard manure of about 12 tons per acre in the spring of 1895. No 

 fertilizer has been applied since. The previous crop was oats. The land was ploughed very 

 lightly after harvest to start weed seeds and shed grain, and again later in the autumn, 

 about 8 inches deep. In the spring it was disc-harrowed twice, and harrowed twice 

 with the smoothing harrow before sowing. Sown 1st May ; If bushel per acre ; came up 

 10th May ; and was ripe 26th July. The time to mature was 86 days. Yield per acre, 29 

 bushels 42 pounds ; weight per bushel, 48 pounds. Length of head, about 3 inches ; length 

 of straw, 42 to 46 inches. Growth medium to strong and even ; all standing well, and 

 the grain ripened very evenly. There was some smut but no rust. 



Trooper. — 2-J- acres. This was adjoining the field of Royal barley ; the soil was 

 similar and the preparation and treatment of the land the same. Sown 1st May; 1| 

 bushel per acre ; came up 10th May ; and was ripe 27th July. The time to mature was 

 87 days. Yield per acre, 26 bushels 15 pounds; weight per bushel, 49 J pounds. Length 



