1042 EXPERIMENTAL FARMH 



7 GEORGE V, A. 1917 

 SEED GROWING. 



Huron wheat, Manchurian barley, Arthur peas, and Banner oats are the varieties 

 ■which have done best here and which are recommended to the farmers of central 

 Quebec. Every jear, a couple of acres of the three former, and from 10 to 20 acres 

 of the latter are grown especially for seed, with the utmost care. The fields are kept 

 free of weeds and rogued during the growing season. Stook covers are used to prevent 

 discolouration of the grain, a specially constructed and easily cleaned machine does 

 the threshing, a regular fanning mill and a Marot grader clean and classify the seed 

 which is put up in neat bags with the name of the Station printed on them and sealed 

 so that no pilfering can take place. This entails lots of work, but farmers who buy 

 seed at this Station derive a great benefit from this and it is Imped that the more 

 careful ones will grow and sell grain in their locality, thus spreading the good work 

 started here. This is all the more important because good seed grain is unfortunately 

 the exception in central Quebec. That the painstaking work undertaken at this 

 Station is appreciated can easily be seen by the fact that many orders for seed had 

 to be refused, the supply being early exhausted. The prices at which it is sold are 

 as follows:' Banner oats, $1 per bushel of 34 pounds; Huron wheat, $1.75 per bushel 

 of 60 pounds; Manchurian barley, $1.50 per bushel of 48 pounds; Arthur peas, $2.50 

 per bushel of 60 pounds. 



MIXTURES FOR GRAIN .PRODUCTION. 



This seems to be a vexed question as some farmers are sure that they get more 

 pounds per acre by sowing two or three kinds of grain together than they would with 

 only one, whilst others say that for stock feeding, especially, it is very seldom that 

 the cereals used in the mixtures can be fed together to the same class of stock with 

 advantage, and that it is better to sow them separately and mix them afterwards as 

 required. 



In 1915, the mixtures did not yield more than the single varieties, but it seems 

 better to await the results of at least two or three years before giving figures. 



GROWING GRAIN FOR HAY PRODUCTION. 



For different reasons, it happens that sometimes meadows are much poorer than 

 usual and farmers look to a crop which can be grown for hay in a single season. 

 Different varieties of oats, also mixtures were used for this purpose in 1915 with the 

 following results : — 



Oats, Gold Rain 7,200 pounds hay per acre. 



Victory 6,126 



" Banner, and vetches ■ 6,060 



•' Banner, with vetches and peas 4,680 



Banner 4,440 



Ligowo 3,900 



Banner, and Peas, Golden Vine 3,368 



All the above were grown on one-sixtieth acre plots. Admitting that, possibly, 

 the crop would be better on a small chosen area than on a larger one, it is interesting 

 to note that, during the same season, hay averaged only 3,006 pounds per acre at this 

 Station, under field conditions. 



Cap Rouge. 



