DIVISION OF CEREALS 



1033 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, FREDERICTON, N.B, 



W. W. HITBBARD, SUPERINTENDENT. 



The season until August was so wet as to be almost disastrous to good grain 

 crops. April was cloudy, cold, and wet; May folloTved with sixteen rainy days, and 

 at no time was any but especially well-drained land fit to cultivate and seed. Unfor- 

 tunately on the Station Farm there was not much well-drained land available for 

 grain, so seeding was very late and a good deal of the crop was drowned out after 

 seeding by wet weather in June and July. June had twenty wet days, and July four- 

 teen. On one of them 3-26 inches of rain fell within the twenty-four hours. From 

 May 1 to September 1 there was a rainfall of 19 inches. The average rainfall for 

 these five months for the last forty-one years has been lij inches. Harvesting 

 weather was, however, warm and dry. Throughout New Brunswick generally much 

 land intended for cereals was not seeded at all, and some was seeded so late that 

 crops did not ripen satisfactorily. 



OATS. 



The principal grain crop on the Station was oats. Twenty-four and three-fifths 

 acres were sown, all but two and a half acres were on new land very rough and very 

 wet. The following is a statement of the field varieties: — 



Date of 

 seeding. 



1. Banner, N.B. seed IMay 



2. Banner ^ " 



3. Banner, P.E.I, seed : " 



4. Liovvo. 



5J Ngw Market 



6. Eerly Blossom 



7: Baanner, Ottawa 49. 



June 



21 .. 

 21-24 

 31 .. 

 2-3.. 



3... 



3 .. 



4... 



Ripe. 



Seot. 13. 

 13 

 20 

 22 

 23. 

 24. 

 16. 



Acres. 



2^ 

 2 



Yield 

 per acre. 



Bushels. 



42 



34-7 



20 



22-3 



10-8 



21 



53-3 



Counting in 18 bushels of grain more or less mixed, the total crop threshed out 

 594 bushels, making an average of 24-1 bushels per acre. 



Plot No. 1 covered an area in orchard under fertilizer experiment, some plots 

 were well fertilized for last year's potatoes, others were not fertilized at all, and some 

 plots with incomplete fertilizer. 



Plot No. 2 was newly broken rough land without fertilizer of any kind, sowed 

 broadcast and covered with drag harrow. 



Plots 3, 4, 5, and 6 were also all new rough land, very uneven, and parts of it 

 very wet. The ground was very full of roots and many boulders which prevented 

 getting the crop off part of the area. The wet season also kept many of the low spots 

 full of water, drowning out about 30 per cent of the crop. 



Plot 7 was fertilized last year for corn. It was rather wet and could not be 

 earlier seeded. 



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