REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MAC KAY. 



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Following will be found return from each plot : — 



Plot No. 



1 

 2 

 3 

 4 



No. 

 of Acres. 



10 

 3 

 1 

 1 



Method of Cultivation. 



Red Fife on fallow 



ti fall ploughing 



II stubble, spring ploughed 



r " not ploughed. . . 



Bushels 

 per Acre. 



33-60 

 32-45 

 24-33 

 26 07 



The fallow-land was considerably blown while the others did not suffer from winds. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Barley was the best crop on the farm the past season, and having no wind or rain 

 storms after the crop headed out, the grain ali stood up and was easily harvested. The 

 straw, especially that of the six-rowed varieties, was extra fine. All varieties were cut 

 back by wind-storm on 13th June, but rain coming two days after soon repaired the in- 

 jury. 



TEST OP EARLY, MEDIUM AND LATE SOWINGS. 



Two varieties were used in this test, Canadian Thorpe, a two-rowed sort and 

 Odessa, a six-rowed variety. The soil was a clay loam and the size- of the plots ^ffth 

 acre each. The first plots were sown on 24th April, one week after the first seeding of 

 wheat, and the sowings were continued on the same day each week for five weeks or 

 until 29th May. The seed was sown on summer-fallowed land by hoe-drill at the rate 

 of 2 bushels per acre. The twelve plots were protected by a wind-break and did not 

 suffer from winds but six of them were frozen down on 13th May. All the plots 

 ripened in the order sown but the early seedings gave much the better yields of grain 

 and straw. 



Barley — Test of Early, Medium and late Seeding. 



Name of Variety. 



Canadian Thorpe . 



Odessa . 





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