150 



OUR; FAEM CROPS. 



From the Potato Oat alone, 74 bushels. 



Hopetoun , 65 



Early Angus . 77 



Kildrummy , 77 



Dun , 76 



Blainslie , 70 



Gray Angus , 63 



Sandy, changed seed, 61 



,, homegrown,' 56 



Whereas the following mixture of 



Hopetoun (5 parts) and Kildrummy (1 part), gave 85 bushels. 



Hopetoun and Sandy, ,, 80 



Hopetoun and Early Angus, ,, 76 ,, 



Potato and Early Angus, ,, 66 ,, 



Potato and Sandy, 66 



" From this table several instructive conclusions may be 

 drawn : First, it appears that Potato Oats, sown alone, 

 produced 8 bushels more than when sown with either 

 Early Angus or Sandy; secondly, that Hopetoun Oats 

 produced 20 bushels less, when sown alone than when 

 mixed with Kildrummy, 15 bushels more when sown 

 with Sandy, and 11 bushels more when mixed with 

 Early Angus. If there was no difference of soil or treat- 

 ment in the above comparison, it appears that the average 

 increase of produce, from simply sowing a mixture ot 

 oats, amounts, in the cases selected, to 13 bushels, from a 

 space of ground which took 6 bushels to sow it. What 

 that space of ground was Mr. Finnie does not mention ; 

 but, taking it at what the quantity of seed would 

 indicate namely, li acre we have fully 1 quarter of 

 oats per acre more from the mixed than the unmixed 

 seed equal to 20s. per acre, or thereabouts, for grain ; 

 and of the straw, the increased quantity will not be less 

 than 38 imperial stones, which, at 3d per stone, is 9s. 6d. ; 

 or, altogether, 29s. 6d per acre for grain and straw. 

 Granting that such results are not invariably obtained 



