836 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



oats, corn, mangel-wurzels, turnips, and potatoes. In general, the appli- 

 cation of 15 tons of fresh barnyard manure per acre gave the best 

 results. 



Farm crops at the experimental farm at Brandon, Manitoba, 

 S. A. Bedford (Canada Expt. Farms tipt. 1897, pp. 307-328). — The 

 experiments reported included variety tests of wheat, oats, barley, 

 peas, corn, turnips, rnangel-wurzels, carrots, sugar beets, potatoes, 

 millets, clovers, and grasses, and trials of early, medium, and late sow 

 ings of wheat, oats, barley, and peas. All results are given in tables. 



Wheat, after a summer fallow, produced a better yield and heavier 

 grain than wheat grown on spring-plowed or fall-plowed land. A test 

 of preparing unplowed stubble laud for wheat showed that disking the 

 land after burning the stubble and then drilling in the seed gave bet- 

 ter results than drilling the seed on burned or uuburned stubble, or on 

 disked uuburned stubble land. Very smutty Red Fife wheat treated 

 with a bluestone solution at the rate of 1 lb. bluestone to 10 bu. of 

 wheat yielded 20 bu. 10 lbs. per acre, the grain weighing 59 lbs. per 

 bushel, and the same seed sown untreated yielded 8 bu. 40 lbs. per 

 acre, the grain weighing 40 lbs. per bushel. 



Among the 10 grasses tested western rye grass (Agropyrum tene- 

 rum) and awnless brome grass ( Bromus incrmis) were the most produc- 

 tive. In most cases sowing the seed at the rate of 15 lbs. per aere 

 gave the best results. 



Farm crops at the experimental farm at Indian Head, North- 

 west Territories, A. Mackay (Canada Expt. Farms Rpt. 1897, pp. 357- 

 379). — Variety tests were made with spring wheat, barley, oats, peas, 

 corn, millets, grasses, root crops, and potatoes. Tests of early, medium, 

 and late sowings and of sowing different quantities of seed per acre 

 are reported. Canary grass, buckwheat, tares, and spring rye were 

 grown experimentally. All results are given in tables. 



Wheat sown 1 and 2 in. deep gave a much better yield than wheat 

 sown 3 in. deep. The average results for the past G years were in 

 favor of sowing 1 in. deep and at the rate of 1^ bu. per acre. This sea- 

 son wheat sown with a press drill gave better results than wheat sown 

 with a hoe drill, which accords with the average results of G years' tests. 

 A larger yield of wheat was produced on fallow than on fall plowed 

 land or spring plowed and unplowed stubble land. 



In a test of mixed grain for fodder, barley and oats sown at the rate 

 of 1 bu. each per acre produced the heaviest yield. 



Flax sown May 25 at the rate of 40 lbs. per acre gave a larger yield 

 of seed than flax sown on other dates or at different rates. The largest 

 amount of straw per acre was obtained from a sowing made the same 

 day at the rate of 80 lbs. of seed per acre. 



An observation upon the after effect upon the growth of 

 barley of the roots of the flat pea (Lathyrus sylvestris), H. J. 

 Wheeler and J. A. TillinohAst (Rhode Island Sta. Bui. 49, pp. 



