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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



RARLEY — Field Lots. 



Seed sown from the 3rd to the 5th of May on summer-fallow, by hoe-drill at the 

 rate of If bushels per acre, soil clay loam. 



Name of Variety. 



Odessa 



Trooper 



Canadian Thorpe 

 Sidney, 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



56 

 54 



45 

 44 



40 



20 



6 



8 



BARLEY — Acre Plots. 



Six varieties were sown on the 5th of May on clay loam on plots of one acre each : 

 two on corn stubble-ploughed six inches deep and harrowed and four on summer-fallow. 

 "Winds thinned the plots on summer-fallow. Seed sown by hoe-drill at rate of If 

 bushel per acre. 



Name of Variety. 



Baxter's — Com stubblS . . . 

 French Chevalier — Fallow 

 Bolton — It 

 Mensury — m 

 Oderbruch— Corn stubble 

 Beaver — Fallow 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



48 

 48 

 45 

 44 

 40 

 38 



33 

 6 

 32 

 29 

 40 

 26 



BARLEY — Test of Varieties. 



In this test twenty varieties of six-rowed and fifteen varieties of two-rowed barley 

 were sown. 



A few plots were slightly injured by winds, and all were cut down by frost on the 

 13th of May, but speedily recovered after rain on the 15th of June, and gave heavy 

 crops of grain and straw. 



Seed was sown on the 5th of May on fallow by hoe-drill, at the rate of two bushels 

 per acre. The soil was clay loam, and the size of the plots was one-tenth acre each. 

 Baxter's and Piicenix both suffered somewhat from smut, all the other varieties were 

 free from smut. 



