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yielding per acre 66 bu. 42 lbs., Nugent 65 bu. 40 lbs., Mensury 61 bu. 12 lbs., 

 Odessa 60 bu. 40 lbs., and Yale 60 bu. 10 lbs per acre. Among the 2-rowed 

 sorts Jarvis ranked first, yielding 66 bu. 22 lbs., followed by French Chevalier 

 with 61 bu. 2 lbs., and Clifford with 60 bu. 30 lbs. Barley after millet pro- 

 duced a better yield of grain than when grown after wheat, oats, peas, or on 

 a summer fallow. 



On the Indian Head farm, among 14 varieties of 2-rowed barley Danish 

 Chevalier led with a yield of 60 bu. per acre, followed by Sidney with 54 bu. 

 2 lbs., Jarvis with 52 bu. 44 lbs., and Clifford, Gordon, Invincible, and Stand- 

 well, each yielding 52 bu. 24 lbs. per acre. Among IS 6-i"owed varieties, 

 Odessa, producing the highest yield, gave 65 bu. 40 lbs.. Blue Long Head 64 

 bu. 8 lbs., and Common 00 bu. 40 lbs. per acre. In field lots of several acres 

 in size the two leading varieties were Claude and Odessa, the yields per acre, 

 respectively, being 5S bu. 28 lbs. and 57 bu. 7 lbs. These two varieties also 

 ranked first in a 4-year comparison of field crops, the average yield per acre 

 in this case being 62 bu. 30 lbs. and 58 bu. 40 lbs., respectively. 



The barley experiments at Agassiz, B. C, included tests with IS varieties 

 of 6-rowed and 14 varieties of 2-rowed barley. The leading 6-rowed varieties 

 and their yields were as follows : Mensui-y 49 bu. 2S lbs., Odessa 47 bu. 4 lbs., 

 and Empire 46 bu. 32 lbs., and the leading varieties of the 2-rowed sorts were 

 Clifford, with a yield of 46 bu. 32 lbs., Swedish Chevalier with 42 bu. 14 lbs., 

 Fi-ench Chevalier 41 bu. 42 lbs., Dunham 41 bu. 32 lbs., Danish Chevalier 41 

 bu. 12 lbs., and Sidney 41 bu. 2 lbs. per acre. 



Rye. — Common spring rye at Ottawa produced a j-ield of 40 bu. 20 lbs., 

 as compared with 39 bu. 16 lbs. yielded by Ottawa Select, a new strain produced 

 at this farm by selection. The yields of winter rye varieties were as follows: 

 Thousandfold 48 bu. 32 lbs.. Mammoth White 43 bu. 52 lbs., and Dominion 43 

 bu. 32 lbs. At Indian Head winter rye sown September 13, 1905, was ripe 

 August 7, produced straw 65 in. long including the head, and yielded 44 bu. 

 of grain per acre, while spring rye sown April 11, was ripe August 16, pro- 

 duced straw 48f in. long, and yielded 35 bu. 20 lbs. per acre. 



Corn. — In the fertilizer experiments with corn the largest average yield for 

 15 years for the late-maturing variety, 16 tons, 750 lbs. per acre, was secured 

 on the well-rotted manure plat. The plat ranking next in yield, with 15 tons, 

 1,979 lbs. per acre received 350 lbs. of mineral phosphate, 200 lbs. of nitrate 

 of soda, and 1,500 lbs. of unleached wood ashes per acre in 1S98-9, no fertilizers 

 from 1900 to 1905, and the application first mentioned in 1905-6. The yields on 

 the fi'esh barnyard manure plat and on the plat receiving barnyard manure 

 together with mineral phosphates were but very little smaller and the yield 

 ranked second. The best average yield of the early-maturing variety, 13 tons, 

 320 lbs. per acre was also secured on the well-rotted barnyard manure plat, and 

 the plat ranking next with 12 tons, 808 lbs. per acre corresponded to the one 

 standing second in the test with the later-maturing corn. 



The leading varieties of corn at Ottawa were Wood Northern White Dent, 

 Early Mastodon, Early Butler, and Selected Leaming. The yields of 23 varieties 

 ranged from 7 tons, 190 lbs. to 15 tons, 690 lbs. when drilled in rows 35 in. 

 apart, and from 9 tons, 1,140 lbs. to 16 tons, 450 lbs. when grown in hills 

 35 in. apart each way. The hills produced an average yield of 1 ton, 803 lbs. 

 greater than the rows. In growing corn in rows 21, 28, 35. and 42 in. apart 

 the largest yield was obtained from the rows closest together. 



At the Nova Scotia farm, Early Mastodon and Thoroughbred White Flint 

 ranked first, with yields of over 25 tons per acre when grown in rows, while 

 Noi'th Dakota White and Cloud Early Yellow stood second with 20 tons, 1,470 

 lbs. and 20 tons, 150 lbs. per acre, respectively, when the corn was grown in 



