DIVISION OF CEREALS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



ever, was excellent for poultry feeding. The plots were one-haK acre each. The 

 seed was sown Maj 17, and the time of harvesting, character of growth, and yield 

 per acre are given in the following table : — 



GRAIN. 



Variety. 



Wheat— 



Marquia. 



Red Fife. 



Oats- 

 Victory 



Banner, Ottawa 49. 



Banner 



Daubeney 



Barley — 



Canadian Thorpe... 



Manchurian 



Peas — 



Arthur 



Golden Vine 



Rate of I Date of 

 seeding, i seeding. 



3 bush, 



H 

 3 



2i 

 2h 



2 



2 



3 



21 



May 17. 

 17. 

 17. 



17. 



17. 

 17. 

 17. 

 17. 



17. 

 17. 



18. 



18. 



When 

 cut. 



Aug. 27.. 



" 27. 

 Sept. 3. 



" 3. 



Sept. 2. 



" 2. 



" 2. 

 Aug. 20.. 



Aug. 27.. 

 " 20. 



Sept. 7. 

 " 11. 



Length 

 of straw 

 inches. 



40 

 40 

 41 

 41 



46 

 46 

 46 

 37 







35 

 37 



33 



32 



Weight 



of straw 



per acre. 



Tons Lb. 



1,266 

 616 



1,034 

 334 



1,830 



1,413 



1,032 



180 



170 

 70 



126 

 87 



Yield 

 per acre. 



Bush. Lb. 



23 

 16 

 21 

 16 



59 

 55 

 57 

 35 



21 



22 



16 

 13 



56 



58 



32 

 2 



31 



36 

 18 



4.'-) 



COMMON VETCH. 



The common vetch is used very largely by the fruit grower for seeding in the 

 orchard for a cover crop after the spring cultivation is finished. This plant seems 

 more suitable than clover, in that it makes more rapid growth, and as it thrives better 

 than clover on acid soils it seems better adapted for this purpose than any of the other 

 legumes. It is also more suitable for old orchards which throw considerable shade. 



The price of seed has advanced very considerably during the past few years 

 owing to the supply from Russia being largely cut off, and it has been thought that the 

 fruit grower might with profit grow his own seed. To get information on the question 

 a plot of one-tenth acre was seeded to vetch on May 18. The ground on which it was 

 gn"own is a sandy loam of rather low fertility, which had been in corn the previous 

 season. The ground was limed at the rate of 1 ton ground limestone and 400 pounds 

 of acid phosphate per acre. The growth was fair but the seed ripened unevenly. The 

 crop was harvested September 21. The yield of seed was 79 pounds, or 13 bushels and 

 10 pounds per acre. About one-half of the seed was of excellent quality; the other was 

 apparently not well matured and wrinkled considerably. It germinated 84 per cent in 

 greenhouse soil tests. It seems that a soil of better fertility than that on which this 

 ■was grown should be selected for seed production. 



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