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frost. Finnish Black on the sumuier-fallowcd plat reached a height of from 50 

 to 58 in. 



S. I*. I. No. 112()8 rye made u fine crop of hay from si)ring seeding. l>at did 

 not proved to l>e a winter variety as is chiimed. A fair stand of Amher rye lived 

 through the winter and a few heads matured seed. Several varieties of winter 

 wheat and rye were winterkilled. 



WorL- (It the Rampart station, F. E. Ruder. — At this station rye has never 

 failed to winter successfully since 1900. This year Amber winter rye grew to an 

 average height of 48 in. and produced short but well-tilled lieads. with plump 

 grain, (iiant French and Excelsior winter rye also gave good results. Kharkov 

 winter wheat did nuich better than the year before and seemed more promising. 

 Part of it was cut Sejitember 5 and the rest September 10. 



The spring grains grown were barley, wheat, oats, rye, and buckwheat. These 

 were sown the last days of May. Manshury barley produced fine large heads 

 and was harvested Septeml)er 15. Laplaud also grew well and ripeued a little 

 earlier than Manshury. Two-rowed barley was ripe for cutting September VI. 

 Saskatchewan Fife wheat did not develop further than the dough stage, and 

 spring rye also failed to mature. Burt Extra Early oats ripened from September 

 1 to 15, when it was harvested, but the variety is not considered very desirable 

 on account of its short, fine straw and small heads. Finnish Black oats is a tall 

 variety with a large head and considered very desirable for that latitude if it 

 can be made to mature earlier. Russian buckwheat was killed by frost August 

 25, when cue-fourth of the crop was ripe. Early Rose potatoes, planted with the 

 sprouts on tlie tubers, produced the largest tops and the most matured potatoes 

 and yielded nearly twice as nuich as ordinary planting. Burbank from Rampart- 

 grown seed grew well and produced good-sized tubers, the average yield being 

 altogether about tenfold, and the quality good. 



Of the different grasses under test, redtoii, orchard grass, timothy, and velvet 

 grass made the best growth. 



IT'orfc at the Keiiui Imitation. P. H. Ro.<<s. — Oats were grown for stock feed and 

 made into hay when tlie grain was in the milk. A rank heavy growth was 

 secured on an area treated with barnyard manure the year before, while on 

 ground not so fertilized the growth was much lighter and thinner. Tall fescue, 

 redtop, timothy, and meadow foxtail seeded in 1903 were cut for hay August 24, 

 l>ut no seed had ripened. Of the grasses seeded in 1904. tall fescue and tall oat 

 grass were 40 in. high and blue grass 36 in. high on August 15. Smooth bronie 

 grass, hitherto one of the most thrifty grasses, did not grow well on account of 

 the wet season. Of tlie grasses seeded in 1905, bluetop was from 48 to 00 in. 

 high on August 15, bunch grass 30 in., timothy 40 to 60 in., and tall fescue 36 in. 

 Bluetop, timothy, and bunch grass matured seed on soil well fertilized with barn- 

 yard manure. It was found that timothy needs barnyard manure as a soil 

 dressing to make a good growth. 



[Report of the] professor of field husbandry and experimentalist, ,T. BucH- 

 ANA.N (.l/(//. Riit. Ontario Af/r. Col. uii(t E.vpt. Farm, 32 (lOUU), pp. Ui'i-lKi. 

 J78-192). — After giving a general outline of the work in his department, the 

 author reports the results of ex]>eriments with a large numl)er of different field 

 crops. Practically all of the work reported is in continuation of previous inves- 

 tigations (E. S. R.. 17. p. 851). 



.S. comi)arison of different grain crops in progress for the past 5 years shows 

 that the greatest yield of grain per acre. 2,739 lbs., was produced by barley, 

 being followed by enuner with 2,714 lbs. In this same t«>st the smallest yields 

 by weight were i)roduced l)y grass peas and spring vetches, the yields per acre 

 amounting to 814 and 713 lbs., respectively. 



