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green crop. The Pencllaria produced 10.5 tons per acre, but no men- 

 tion was made of this when giving the different varieties, as it is sim- 

 ply another name of the East India Pearl Millet. The greatest yields 

 of hay in 1904 were produced by the Japanese Panicle, 4.5, and the 

 Japanese Barnyard, 3.7 tons per acre. 



As twelve of the varieties of millet have been grown for ten years 

 in succession, the experiments cover a great variety of seasons. Those 

 varieties producing large yields of green crop and of hay per acre are 

 as follows : Golden Wonder, 11.2 tons of green crop and 4.5 tons of 

 hay; Holy Terror Gold Mine, 10.8 tons of green crop and 4.5 tons of 

 hay; Japanese Panicle, 10. i tons of green crop and 4.5 tons of hay; 

 Magic, 9.9 tons of green crop and 4.2 tons of hay; and Japanese Barn- 

 yard, 9.5 tons of green crop and 4 tons of hay per acre. 



Rape, Kale, Cabbage, Etc. 



Although rape is known more or less throughout Ontario, neither 

 cabbage or kale has been grown as a field crop on many of our farms 

 for the purpose of furnishing food for farm stock. All these crops are 

 grown more extensively in Great Britain than they are in Canada. Ex- 

 periments have now been conducted in each of the past six years with 

 fifteen varieties of rape, kale, cabbage, etc., in order to glean some 

 information regarding the comparative yields of these varieties when 

 grown under uniform conditions in Ontario. The seed has been sown 

 in rows about 26 inches apart, and the land has been cultivated in much 

 the same way as that containing a crop of turnips. Only about one 

 pound of seed per acre is required when sown in rows and the land 

 cultivated. The seeding has usually been done in June, and the crop 

 harvested the latter part of September or in October. The following 

 table gives the names of the varieties, the yield per acre in 1904, an<^ 

 the average yield per acre for six years of each of fifteen varieties : 



Varieties. 



Sutton'8 Earliest Drumhead Cabbage 



Dwarf Essex Rape 



Thousand Headed Kale 



Dwarf Victoria Rape 



Marrow Stem Kale 



Purple Sprouting Boroccoli 



Sutton's Earliest Sheepfold Cabbage 



Marrow Collards 



Hardy Curled Kale 



Sutton's Best of All Savoy Cabbage 



Jersey Kale .... ■•■• 



Sutton's Latest Drumhead Cabbage . 



Tall Green Curled Scotch Kale 



Brussels Sprouts 



Tall Jersey Cabbage 



Average yield per acre 

 for 6 years. 



Tons. 

 19. 9 

 17.4 



17.1 

 17.0 

 16.8 

 16.6 

 16.2 

 15.7 

 15.6 

 14.9 



14.8 

 12.2 

 12.1 

 11.6 

 7.8 



