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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Barley — Results of Early, Medium and Late Sowings. 



Wheat — Results of Early, Medium and Late Sowings. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEASE. 



Forty varieties of pease were sown 16th May, on one-twentieth acre plots. The same 

 land devoted to the experimental plots of pease last year was again used. It was of a 

 rather light clay loam and very poor. 



The cut worm did a great amount of damage to these plots in some cases fully one- 

 half the plants were cut oflF when about 3 inches high. 



Fertilizers at the rate of 250 pounds per acre was used, this was made up of 125 

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

 with the seed. The results obtained are as follows : — 



