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bushels; Medium or Navy, 20.7 bushels; and Schofield Pea, 20.5 

 bushels per acre. In average weight per measured bushel for eight 

 years, there was a variation from 57 pounds for the Large White Hari- 

 cots to 65.7 pounds for the Snowflake variety. Twelve out of the thir- 

 teen varieties, however, gave upwards of 62 pounds per measured 

 bushel in the average of eight years' experiments. 



Soy, Soja, or Japanese Beans. 

 Many of the varieties of Soy beans require too long a season to. 

 give satisfactory results in Ontario. As the result of experiments con- , 

 ducted for a series of years, however, we have found the Early Yellow 

 variety to give good satisfaction as a grain producer^ and the Medium 

 Green variety as a fodder crop. We believe that as the Medium Green 

 variety becomes better known, it will be grown for the purpose of cut- 

 ting green and mixing with corn when filling the soil. We also believe 

 that the Early Yellow variety can be grown quite successfully for grain 

 production on many farms of Ontario. The grain is exceedingly rich, 

 containing more protein than any of the ordinary farm crops grown in 

 Ontario. A small quantity of the Soy beans, ground and mixed with 

 other meal, will increase the quality of the meal considerably. Owing 

 of the unfavorable weather conditions for the Soy beans in 1904, the 

 crop was not as satisfactory as usual. We generally get about 1,200 

 pounds of grain per acre, but the best yielding variety of Soy beans in 

 1904 produced only 880 pounds of the ripened seed per acre. 



Horse Beans. 

 The Horse bean is a coarse, rank-growing annual legume which 

 is used quite extensively in Europe as a forage plant. There are 

 several named varieties of horse beans, a number of which have been 

 grown at the College. They have been under test in the Experimental 

 Department for practically each season during the past fifteen years. 

 In most seasons, they give very poor results. The yield of ripe seed 

 in 1904 was only 200 pounds per acre. On the whole, the Horse beans 

 seem to be unsuited for general cultivation throughout Ontario. 



Grass Peas. 



The Grass pea is a leguminous plant, which produces long, flat 

 vines ; slender leaves ; white blossoms ; medium-sized pods ; and hard, 

 angular, white, or greenish white, grains. It is entirely proof against 

 the attacks of the pea weevil. In many respects, it resembles the Bitter 

 Vetch {Lathyrus sativiis) of Europe, which, however, has blue flowers 

 and brown seeds. It also appears to be free from the poisonous prin- 

 ciple which the Bitter Vetch is said to possess. This is borne out by 

 the extensive and satisfactory use of the Grass peas as a food for farm 

 stock. 



In the average results of tests made for a period of seven years, 

 it was found that the annual yield of grain was 25.7 bushels, and the 

 yield of straw 2.2 tons per acre. During the last two or three years, 



