REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. SHARPS. 



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Spring Wheat — Test of Yarieties. 



Name of Variety. 



White Connell 



Wellman's Fife 



Preston 



Captor 



Monarch 



Alpha 



White Russian 



Red rife 



White Fife .... 



Old Red River 



Rideau 



Herisson Bearded 



Admiral 



Vernon 



Groose 



Progress 



Hungarian 



Pringle's Champlain 



Advance 



Huron 



Countess . . 



Blenheim 



Beaudry 



Golden Drop 



Percy 



Black Sea 



CampbeU's White Chafif . 



Dion's 



Crown 



Rio Grande , . . . 



Red Fern 



Stanley 



Ladoga 



Dawn 



Beauty 



Emporium 



Dufferin 



Colorado 



Date 



of 

 Ripening. 



Aug. 



18. 

 17. 

 13. 



9. 

 17. 

 13. 

 13. 

 13. 

 18. 

 18. 



9. 

 17. 

 13. 

 18. 

 18. 

 18. 

 18. 

 18. 

 17. 

 18. 

 13. 

 18. 

 13. 



9. 



7., 



rj 

 I . . 



13., 

 18.. 

 18.. 

 17.. 

 17.. 

 13., 



6.. 



5.. 



7.. 

 18.. 

 13.. 

 18.. 



>, 



o.S 



<D 3 



126 

 125 

 121 

 117 

 125 

 121 

 123 

 121 

 126 

 126 

 117 

 125 

 121 

 126 

 126 

 126 

 123 

 126 

 125 

 126 

 121 

 126 

 121 

 117 

 115 

 112 

 121 

 126 

 126 

 125 

 125 

 121 

 114 

 113 

 115 

 126 

 121 

 123 



Length 



of 

 Straw. 



Inches. 



48 



42 to 48 

 50 to 54 

 52 to 56 

 46 to 50 

 40 to 42 

 48 to 52 

 44 to 48 

 48 to 50 

 48 to 50 

 34 to 38 

 40 to 42 

 52 to 56 

 44 to 46 

 48 to 50 



44 to 48 

 48 to 50 

 46 to 50 

 48 to 50 

 46 to 48 

 42 to 46 

 46 to 50 

 52 to 56 

 46 to 50 

 48 to 52 

 42 to 44 

 40 to 44 

 46 to 48 

 46 to 50 



45 to 48 



46 to 48 

 38 to 42 

 36 to 40 

 32 to 34 

 42 to 45 

 56 to 60 

 42 to 44 

 50 to 52 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



Bush. Lba. 



31 40 



31 20 



31 .. 



30 40 



30 40 



30 .. 



30 .. 



29 40 



29 20 



29 20 



29 .. 



l! 40 



28 20 



28 20 



28 20 



28 .. 



28 .. 



27 40 



27 20 



27 20 



27 20 



27 20 



27 .. 



27 .. 



27 .. 



27 .. 



26 40 



26 40 



26 .. 



26 .. 



25 40 



25 40 



25 20 



25 00 



24 20 



24 20 



23 20 



23 20 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Sixty-four varieties were sown on loamy soil on the 16th of April on plots of one- 

 twentieth of an acre each. 



These plots were sown in the apple orchard, on land that had been partly in com 

 and part of it in oats in 1896. The following varieties were injured by rust, especially : 

 the White Russian, Mortgage Lifter, Olive, White Wonder, Victoria Prize, and Abun- 

 dance ; and some plots have suffered owing to the land on which they were sown having 

 been dug to a depth of three or four feet in taking out fir stumps. In such cases lb 

 requires a number of years of cultivation to restore the land to a condition equal to that 

 adjoining, which has not been grubbed to such a depth. 



The growth of straw was very rank, but the weight of straw shown in the following 

 table is greater than it would be but for the ferns, of which there were a good many in 

 all the plots. 



