age has gradually decreased until in 1904 there were only 339,260 

 acres of peas. This great decrease in Ontario's pea crop has been 

 brought about largely through the ravages of the pea weevil. As the 

 acreage has been reduced to such a large extent, the few who grow peas 

 at the present time in the older parts of the Province should be very 

 sure to fumigate the crop with carbon bisulphide immediately after 

 harvest, in order to check the ravages of this troublesome pest. For 

 the method of treatment, the reader is referred to another part of this 

 report. We submit the foregoing table, believing that it contains much 

 useful information in studying the present conditions regarding the 

 growing of farm crops in Ontario. 



Yields Per Acre of Different Classes of Grain. 



Besides making a careful study of the varieties of grain crops of 

 any one class, it is well for us to compare the different classes of grain 

 one with another. In the table presented under the previous heading, 

 it will be noticed that the average number of pounds of grain per acre 

 per annum for Ontario for the past twenty-three years has been as fol- 

 lows : Barley, 1301 lbs.; winter wheat, 1218 lbs.; oats, 1217 lbs.; 

 peas, 1 170 lbs. ; beans, 1026 lbs. ; spring wheat, 942 lbs. ; buckwheat, 

 936 lbs. ; and rye 913 lbs. Thus we see that of the principal farm crops 

 which have been grown throughout Ontario for the last twenty-three 

 years, barley has given the largest number of pounds of grain per 

 acre. The increase in the yield of barley over oats is fully 14 per cent. 



In comparison with the results for twenty-three years, it might be 

 interesting to notice the results of some of the same crops over Ontario 

 for the years 1902, 1903, and 1904. Taking the average of these three 

 we find that the annual production in yields of grain per acre are as 

 follows : Barley, 1584 lbs. ; oats, 1390 lbs. ; winter wheat, 1360 lbs. ; 

 peas, 1128 lbs. ; spring wheat, 1082 lbs. ; beans, 970 lbs. ; and rye, 941 

 lbs. These results again show that the barley comes first, and the oats 

 second in yield of pounds of grain per acre. It also shows that the 

 yields of all the crops except beans have been considerably higher dur- 

 ing the last three years than they were in the average of the past 

 twenty-three years. 



As some of these same kinds of crops were distributed throughout 

 Ontario in the spring of 1962, 1903, and again in the spring of 1904, 

 for co-operative experiments, a reference to the results obtained will 

 be interesting for comparison with the results in general farm prac- 

 tice. It should be understood that the crops grown throughout On- 

 tario are the averages of a large number of tests made on separate 

 farms. The average soil on which any one crop would be grown would, 

 therefore, not be e'xactly the same as the average soil used for the ex- 

 periments with other crops. It should also be remembered that the re- 

 sults here presented are those of small plots, and not of large fields. 



