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largest crop in the naked, hulless, and Kinvers’ Chevalier; the unspaded 
yielded the largest crop in the four-rowed variety. If we class the 
spaded and half-spaded together as cultivated, and the unspaded as 
uncultivated, we have: 
Grain. 
Cultivated. Uncultivated. 
Naked or hulless.......... os babaneewoe 3 32.8 bu. 34.3 bu. 
Oo I ea 41.5 bu. 40.8 bu. 
UME ERTL 8a ne whe sg giclee sca vegedees 41.2 bu. 44.2 bu. 
Merever BPO NeEValicr 2... i. cco ts on SaRN APs oo 40.1 bu. 38.8 bu. 
Straw 
Cultivated. Uncultivated. 
Daweewr Nulless B30 BPh.BEE oO reece tate tere 980 lbs. 1633 lbs. 
PP TOWOC eo tet 8 tbh tk tte 8s 1732 lbs. 2014 lbs. 
Prommroweas... 2288 FE. OS ee eee cee 1089 lbs. 1524 Ibs. 
Kinvyers-Ohevalier.... sce. cici ess teeaia: 2559 lbs. 2613 Ibs. 
We may infer from these figures, that, under circumstances of wide 
intervals and thin seeding, cultivation carried to an extreme can be 
pronounced as neither advantageous nor injurious to the grain yield, 
but as tending decidedly to reduce the straw. 
OATS. 
Sample of every variety of oats that could be obtained from seeds- 
men were sown in drills two feet apart, the seed evenly and thinly scat- 
tered in the row. The tabulated records are as below : 
Vege- 
Planted. tated. Days. Bloomed. Days. Ripe. Days. 
Bohemian or hulless. . . Apr.17 May 2 15 July 3 77 Aug. 1 106 
Chinese hulless. . . . Apr.15 Mayl 16 June 30 76 Aug. 8 110 
Pringle’s Excelsior Hulless. Apr. 15,» Mayl 16 June 30 76 Aug. 5 112 
Mold’s Ennobled. .. . Apr. 15. Mayi 16 June 30 76 Aug. 5 112 
Mammoth Russian... Apr. 15. Mayl 16 June 30 76 Aug. 5 112 
Washington (Thorburn) . Apr. 15 May 1 16 July 3 79 Aug. 5 112 
Washington (Bliss). . .Apr.15 Mayl 16 July 3. pio Aug. “5: > 112 
- New Australian . .. . Apr.15  Mayl a ¢ Aug. 9 116 
Ohanenae Gsi8. . aso Apr. 1%ii May2 15 July 14 88 Aug. 11 116 
White Russian. . . . Apr. 15 ., May 1 16 July 14 = 86 Aug. 19 126 
As a matter of curiosity, we selected three of the most prolific stems 
of each variety, and,by means of the balance, determined the heaviest 
of each three, whose spikelets and seeds were then carefully counted, 
with the following result: 
Spikelets. Seed. 
PBouwmran or Hullese ah. cP es eee rece cece dcterec. 71 136 
liwerone eraiiess.. Pe? 84. 80. So ce ce ce ce ee PRR OS, 63 112 
Prvnetosctx celsior*Hulless:2. 3) oo ortho d 8 8 3 aie is a here's 91 137 
Molise dnnobled 28? 655 2.285, 2. ee. fede eso reyes as 28 12 
Wrarryaun SUSSIAN Ss) SL Pe bese cena ee ES 80 131 
Ry eee tOr CNOFNGOD 2 Us ee oe settee a ee eke 132 143 
eos tOn OlisaySY seh 984 Feta Fe Se cage ieee ee de 153 210 
New Australian.......:.. BOLUS ee ose Pore e ce dts 189 254 
hamtened (NO, PSO. POL De ere nas ata tatsiatatetst state 115 201 
NIORUPELCULGRIUIT Gc ys Siecle edie s oe a's Peer ty ie srk : 83 123 
