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two and one-half feet wide. The soil was clayey-loam, 
-quite level, and had been prepared by being ploughed and 
harrowed the previous fall. At time of planting the 
ground was spaded and worked with a hoe. Fertilizer was 
applied at the rate of 400 lbs. per acre. On plat A. 12, six 
successive seedings of White Australian oats were made, at 
weekly intervals. On A. 13, the same number of seedings 
were made in the same manner with common two-rowed 
barley. The quantity of seed applied in both cases was a 
quart measure full, the grain being shaken down somewhat, 
and then struck off level. The seed was broadcasted by 
hand and raked in. The purport of the experiment was, 
not to determine questions relative to productiveness, but 
concerning the periods of maturity resulting from a wide 
range of time in planting. The results are tabulated as 
follows: 













+4) VWege- | Pani- F Weight of | Weight of | Weight of 
PLAT. Plant i" tated. | cled. Ripe. Cut. grain. straw. sirack bush 
I |Mar. 26 April14'June 10 July 16/July 19 23 lbs. 12 02/20 lbs. 402/53 lbs. 8 oz 
(ir April @ ‘*) 15} “. 10) * 16) “*) 1991 «@ Io 4e gOS 0. 
Rarl j Tl SO Gs SPELT ESE TION SS) TGIeEES 19.28 eet A oS le ales ee 
arley... IV - 16 “ gal % 43) * Jol * 9899 ** 419% QQ +& oO |52 * yo 
| V a“ 93 sb 30 “ce 13 6s a1 6s 992 25 oe 4 6s \o7 sé 0 oe 51 oe 12 ae 
LVI bi) 80May fp d% “Bl NBLIe , Mi B ie Ra IRE eee 
| | | | 
I |Mar. 26 April16 June 11|July 19\July 1922lbs. 402/35 lbs. 8 oz 
Tk, fApril’2 4p 17 8 lal Se Id eS S00 eS Be ee 
Oat 4 THER BEST IOP SS Ea AR 2G) EP Beery OMe A eee 
ered el es TVin We ee Oey ope Sf ROP RCE OR ee ae 
V "23 May 1 se Qi a ete le 9 Oe tO eae man eae 
VI oe 30 ia ve ia o7 “ce 31 6b 81 91 ee 8 ce 135 ac 8 oe 




It is to be noted that the periods intervening between the 
vegetations of the first three plats, :a both cases, are very 
short, there being but three days’ diiference in planting at 
two weeks interval. With both species of grain, there was 
much resemblance in the rapidity of growth. ‘The first 
three seedings developed much alike, the three barleys all 
panicling, ripening and being cut at the same time. Oat 
plats I and II ripened about a week earlier than III, which 
ripened with [Vand V. Plats IV and V of the barley made 
much the same growth during the season, and were cut at 
the same time. Plats VI in both cases ripened later than 
the others, and the plants never attained the growth in 
height or robustness seen in the others. In both crops the 
maximum yield of grain seemed to be secured in the fifth 
seeding. The reason for the lighter yield in the sixth bar- 
ley seeding is that the quantity of seed used is about one- 
half that applied in the other plats. 
This one experiment produces evidence which would 
tend to indicate that we might commonly plant our oats 
and barley rather earlier than is practiced. Plat I in both 
cases went through a number of freezings, and snow in 

