however, within the past ten years, show that the so-called Turkestan 

 Alfalfa obtained through the seed trade of the United States and of 

 Canada, has displayed no perceptible advantages over the common variety 

 grown in this Province. Wishing to obtain fuller information 

 regarding the best sources of purchasing Alfalfa seed of the highest 

 quality for use in Ontario, we secured for experimental purposes samples 

 of seed grown in different parts of the world. Some of these were 

 obtained through the kindness and the co-operation of the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, and some were obtained direct by the College. 

 In the spring of 1905, twenty-eight plots were sown in duplicate with 

 Alfalfa seed obtained from different sources. From each of the plots 

 three cuttings for hay were made in 1906, and one cutting for hay and one 

 for seed in 1907. The following table gives the average dates of the first 

 appearance of the bloom in the two years, and the total yield per acre of 

 green crop and of hay from the three cuttings in 1906 and the one cutting 

 in 1907 : 



Source of Seed. 



Texas, Panhandle 



Turkestan, Khiva 



Turkestan, Samarkand 



Nebraska 



Montana, Northern 



Chinese Empire, Sairam 



New York 



Montana, Southern 



Germany 



Utah, irrigated 



Montana, Northern 



Texas, Sherman 



Russia, Simbirsk 



Kansas 



France, Poitou 



Colorado 



Nebraska • 



Utah, non-irrigated 



United States, First Quality Commercial Seed. 



Ontario, O. A. C. Seed, 1904 



Italy 



Ontario, O. A. C. Seed, 1903 



Russia, Kharkoff 



Turkestan, through Win. Rennie, Seedsman, 



Toronto 



France, Provence 



Turkestan, through . Currie Bros., Seedsmen, 



Milwaukee 



Arabia 



Peru 



