248 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The experience at Ottawa has been thai the earliest varieties, and notably Wallace, 

 Welcome, and White Wonder, arc low in yield. At Brandon Abundance, Waverly, 

 Banner, Tartar King, and Improved Ligowo drilled on summer-fallowed plats of clay 

 loam Boil, from 3 to 7 acres in size, yielded 86 bu. 18 lbs., 86 bu. 5 lbs., 83 bu. 15 lbs., 

 82 bu. 30 His., and 73 bu. 18 lbs., respectively. 



Banner oats after flax, millet, summer fallow, and turnips produced, respectively, 

 117 bu. 12 lbs., 115 bu., 102 bu. 32 lbs., and 85 bu. 10 lbs. per acre. < )n Held plats at 

 Indian Head, Banner and Abundance among 9 varieties led in productiveness, with 

 119 bu. 2 lbs. and 106 bu. per acre; required 122 and 124 days to mature, and weighed 

 38 and 39 lbs. per measured bushel, respectively. The average yield per acre of the 

 9 varieties was 95 bu. 8 lbs. 



Barley. — The earliest varieties of 6-rowed barley grown at Ottawa for 5 years or 

 more, are Odessa, Stella, and Trooper, being about 1 day earlier than Blue Long 

 Head and Mensury. Of the 2-rowed varieties Jarvis, Beaver, and Gordon, all cross- 

 bred sorts produced at Ottawa, were the earliest. Canadian Thorpe and French 

 Chevalier ripened 2 or 3 days later. At Brandon, Mensury 6-rowed produced the 

 best yield when grown after millet, as compared with following summer fallow, flax, 

 and turnips, mentioned in the decreasing order of yield. An average yield of 56 

 bu. 25 lbs. per acre was obtained from four 2-rowed and five 6-rowed varieties grown 

 on field plats of fallow and brome grass sod. 



Rye. — Spring rye sown April 17 required 115 days to mature at ( )ttawa, and yielded 

 in bushels of 56 lbs. 21 bu. 24 lbs. per acre. A yield of 38. bu. of grain and 4,-">40 

 lbs. of straw per acre was obtained at Indian Head. Fall rye at Indian Head sown 

 October 7 ripened August 20 and yielded 46 bu. 20 lbs. per acre. 



Corn. — Champion White Pearl, Selected Learning, and Longfellow were grown at 

 Ottaw r a, as in previous years, in rows 21, 28, 35, and 42 in. apart, and in each case 

 the yield favored the closest planting. The results have varied in different years, 

 but this is believed to be due to the character of the season. At Nappan the results 

 of an experiment on the same plan were generally in favor of the wider rows. 



At Brandon, the yield in every instance was again highest with the closest planting. 

 The average yield of green corn at Brandon from rows 30 and 36 in. apart was about 

 the same, while the rows 42 in. apart produced over 5 tons less per acre. Early 

 Amber Rice and White Pearl pop corn failed to mature grain at this farm, but yielded 

 14.80 and 18 tons of green fodder per acre, respectively. The distance tests at Indian 

 Head resulted in favor of the 21-in. rows with Longfellow and Champion White 

 Pearl, and in favor of the 28-in. rows with Selected Learning. At Agassiz, where 

 the varieties were grown in hills and drills at the different distances, the results indi- 

 cated that drilling in rows 3 ft. apart was likely to be most generally satisfactory. 



P». — The earliest varieties at Ottawa were Chancellor and White Wonder, w hich 

 ripened about 2 days before Paragon and Arthur, 2 crossbred varieties produced at 

 the experimental farms. Chancellor, with a period of growth of 118 days, yielded 

 30 bu. 20 lbs. per acre, while White Wonder produced only 22 bu. 40 lbs. 



Potatoes. — Of 15 varieties tested at Ottawa in 1903, in addition to the regular tests on 

 uniform plats, i> gave yields of over 300 bu. per acre. Morgan Seedling and Vermont 

 Gold Coin, the 2 leaders in this test, produced at the rate of a little over 522 and 477 

 bu. per acre, respectively. At Brandon, in similar experiments, Peachblow and 

 Chenango ranked first, with 539 and 446.6 bu. per acre, respectively. Digging 17 

 early varieties on August 8 and 20, and September 4, at Nappan, showed that the 

 average yield of marketable tubers increased from 157 bu. 56 lbs., the yield obtained 

 August 8, to 241 bu. 56 lbs. by August 20. After this date there was no further gain 

 in yield. 



Tests at this farm with tubers cut in different ways for planting were in favor 

 of sets made by cutting the tuber in two, lengthwise. Medium-sized whole tubers 

 gave nearly as good results. A plat planted with sets treated with air-slaked lime 



