REPORT OF MR. O. W. FORREST. 



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Oats — Test of Varieties — Concluded. 



RESULTS OF EARLY, MEDIUM AND LATE SOWINGS. 



Experiments to test the relative value of early, medium and late sowings of grain 

 were again carried on this year. The first set of these plots was sown 19th May, and 

 the sowings were continued until six had been made, one week apart. One variety each 

 of wheat, barley and oats were used in this test. The soil on which these experiments 

 were conducted was a clayey loam. Fertilizer at the rate of 250 pounds per acre, made 

 up of 125 pounds of complete fertilizer and 125 pounds of bone meal, mixed together, 

 was drilled in with the seed when sown. 



Owing to the lateness of the season when the last set of plots were sown, and the 

 early frost this fall, the three last sowings of wheat, and the last plot of oats and barley, 

 did not mature. The first plots sown were slightly rusted, the later sown ones were all 

 badly rusted. The plots were one-twentieth acre each. The results are as follows : — 



Oats — Results of Early, Medium and Late Sowings. 



