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the moisture holding humus, of which the soil on this field 
had been too far depleted. 
Experiments on the best time to sow barley have been. 
interfered with by other causes and have not given conclu- 
sive results. Danger from frost would not permit sowing 
much before May 1st in an ordinary season. 
The season is sufficiently long to ripen all grains before 
frost. The following table gives an average of the actual 
dates of planting and harvesting grain, if the grain is cut 
when ripe, for seven years on the experiment farm. 
Kind. Sown. Ripe. Growing Period. 
BATE: secs ncens May 1st. Aug. Ist. 93 days. 
ODES s). 1S sbie April 25th. Aug. 12th. 109 days. 
WVM@A TE tess.ci April 25th. Aug. 16th. 113 days. 
On several occasions, the oats were sown first for con- 
venience, and at other times they ripened proportionately 
later than wheat on account of being on lower ground. A 
slight correction can be made to bring the facts more in ac- 
cord with a probable average, as follows: 
Oats isi cated aes Apml2oth:, Aug. 10th. 107-days: 
WCAC i383. Aprl22nd.. Aug. toth; . 115 days: 
Winter Wheat.—Two plots of winter wheat were sown 
in the fall of 1900, but owing to poor preparation of soil, 
the crop was injured, though the wheat lived over winter, 
and yielded but 7 and 10 bushels. In the fall of 1901 the 
seed saved was sown, together with fresh seed of the same 
two varieties, on Aug. 28th. The crop was not injured by 
the winter, and ripened July 31st. The seed from the defect- 
ive plots of the preceding year yielded an average of 18.1 
bushels per acre, while the new seed gave 22.9 bushels, or 
4.8 bushels better. The wheat was of very good grade. In 
both seasons there was sufficient snow to furnish protection 
during the winter. This snow-fall, which the protection of 
the timber allows to settle evenly on the fields, is the 
cause of thesuccess in growing winter wheat in this latitude, 
when it cannot be grown much farther south for winter kill- 
ing. It is not safe to sow much later than Sept. 1st for the 
wheat will not have time to grow in the fall sufficiently to. 
form hardy roots. 
Speltz is attracting someattention as a grain for feeding 
