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Tobacco. — Forty-nino variotios of toliaooo wore grown at Ottawa this season 

 ami of 7 varieties having done well in jirevious years and grown in larger areas, 

 Connecticut Seed Leaf and Kentucky Burley gave the hirgest total yields per 

 acre of all grades of leaf. Little Oronoka and Lacks were ripe on September 

 15 and the other varieties were nearly ripe. 



Orasscx and other forage crops. — Inoculated and uninoculnted seed of clover 

 und alfalfa gave the same results with reference to nodules on the roots at 

 Nappan. hut the clover in each case had many more nodules than were found on 

 the alfalfa. Green soy beans produced a much larger yield than white soy 

 i)eans, and Italian millet far outranked 5 other varieties grown. At Brandon 

 connnon red clover gave a heavier yield than alfalfa. Algerian, the leading 

 millet, produced fi.l tons of hay per acre. At Indian Head in 1904 alfalfa gave 

 nnich larger yields of hay than several grasses with which it was compared. 

 At Agassiz 3 cuttings of clover were secured for the silo, making a total of 32 

 tons 1,590 lbs. per acre. Clover was found cheaper for silage than corn. 



Miscellaneous. — A report is given on the inspection of different experimental 

 farms and on the growing of winter wheat in Alberta and of different farm crops 

 in the Yukon country. The grades of wheat in the Manitoba inspection di- 

 vision and the most important varieties long under cultivation in Canada are 

 described. 



Forage plants and cereals at Highniore Substation, 1904-5 (i^oiifli Dakota 

 »S7ff. Bui. .96*, pp. 2S-6(). figs. 5). — A brief history and description of the station is 

 given, together with the monthly rainfall records for the years 1888 to 1905, 

 inclusive, and the results of forage plant and cereal investigations for 1904-5 

 are recorded. 



Forage plants, W. A. Wheeler and 8. Balz (pp. 2.3-45). — Of 5 varieties of 

 alfalfa from seed sown May 12, 1905, an average yield of 1,750 lbs. of hay per 

 acre was secured. Oasis stood first with an average yield of 1,930 lbs. The 

 average height of the different varieties was 1 ft. 3 in. In the breeding ex- 

 periments with alfalfa it was observed that the varieties from Turkestan showed 

 greater variation than those from America or southern Europe. The Turkestan 

 alfalfa produced a larger percentage of coarse, shrubby plants than the other 

 varieties. Owing to an excessive rainfall a good stand of red clover was se- 

 cured. The barnyard millets were found low in quality and the pearl millets, 

 or Pencillax'ia, too late for the seasons. 



Good results were secured with broom corn, or proso millets, and foxtail 

 millets. Broom corn millets matured in from 75 to 85 days and foxtail millets 

 from 85 to 110 days. In 1904, when July and August were very dry, the broom 

 corn millets matured a small crop of seed, but none of the foxtail millets ma- 

 tured. In 1905 good crops were secured from all varieties tested, the large 

 amount of moisture especially favoring the foxtail varieties. In 1904 the broom 

 corn millets i)roduced an average of 1 bu. 35 lbs. of seed per acre, while the 

 following season the.v produced 29 bu. 37 lbs. Foxtail millets produced a yield 

 of an average of, 42 bu. 22 lbs. per acre in 1905. 



In plant-breeding work with millets grown in centgeners the average results 

 for all varieties show an average of 99 days for the growing period, 17 lbs. 13 

 oz. as a total weight of 100 plants, and 6 lbs. 9 oz. as the weight of seed secured 

 from 100 plants. The growing period ranged from 93 to 103 days and the total 

 weight of 100 plants from 16 lbs. 1 oz. to 20 lbs. 12 oz. The light and dark 

 seeded varieties have been separated for breeding work and their comparison is 

 now in progress. 



A large number of inti'oduced and native grasses have been under test, but 

 onl.v Bromus inermis. slender wheat-grass, western wheat-grass, wild rj-e-grass, 

 and wild timothy are considered worthy of further trial. Seed of Bromus iner- 



