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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2125, 26 February 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENTAL UNION, Tho Experimental Union of Canada is an organisation of young men at tho agricultural colleges .and institutions and of practical farmers. It lias proved a great .agent in the dissemination of information in experimental work. During last year 1050 farmers in the province of Ontario conducted experiments on tlieir own lines laid clown b.v the Union for the better production of grasses and cereals, forage crops and roots; they report on the results once a year to the agricultural College, co-operating heartily with the Experimental Department, and in that way great progress has been made. “One experimentalist in 1881! among other things, brought out from Manchuria a double handful of barley, which is known as common Mandscheuri barley. That .was tho only seed that was ever 'taken to Canada direct from the ,country from which it came. It was planted on a small plot the first year, and then tho largest seeds selected for next year and sown. Then,” according to the report, “we began to send it out to the different farms, and this year that barley produced from four to live bushels more per acre than the average barley raised throughout the province of Ontario. It has been planted on our ordinary farms to the extent of half a million acres; and if you take half a million of acres of grain this year, each aero growing four bushels of barley per acre more than it would have grown had we not brought out those two handfuls some years ago, you can realise that at 50 cents a bushel the Ontario Experimental Farm and College and the Ontario Department of Agriculture itself, and all the expenses connected with these three great -institutions, would have been paid by that product alone. Hence we feci justified in calling attention co facts of that