Farm Topics. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMNTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 22, 21 July 1900, Page 4

Farm Topics. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMNTS.

The following results of experi- ' lnents conducted o.t the Canterbury "i Agi'ioultuval College farm, Lincoln, " in the season of 1899-1900, were : reported to the Board of Governori ] on March 18th, and ar« communi- 1 cated by Mr J, Bayne, M.A., B.Sc* ? in Agri., Director;

The barley io the thinly-sowa ,£ parts was long as to the straw and * as to the heads ; in the thickly-sown ,, ■parts the straw and heads were ; shn/fcei*. The thinly-sown parts did not ripen so evenly as the thicklysown parts. r he quality of the grain was fairly equal.

Experiment with different culti- ; vation with same quantity of seocL: per acre. After Wheat — Par bonce ploughed ; and sown with If bua of Nonpareil wheat per acre yielded 50^bus per acre. Part twice ploughed and sown with l-|bus of Nonpareil per aero yield 48^-bus per acre. After Grass — Part once ploughed (5 acres) and sown with ljbus of Pearl wheat per acre yielded 47f bus per acre. Part twice ploughed (17 acce.s) and sown with l|-bus of Peatl wheat per acre yielded 45^bua per aero. Contrary to previous experiment* ; the parts twice ploughed did not yield quite so well as those once ploughed, which was no doubt on account of the heavy rain prevailing shortly after the wheat was drilled. The twice ploughed parts became sodden, and when tho dry weather came they baked and cracked more than the parts that were once ploughed.

creags 13 10 9 Kind of oat Cut Yield pec Acre. Bparrowbil! Jan 23 to 26 50$ Canadian Jan 11 47£ Hamilton Jan 23 to 26 45J

Experiments with different ldncls of oafcp sown under same conditions. - The oats were drilled, 2 bus. per - acre, from August 28 to 80. '

Experiments with different kinds of wheat sown under the same conditions (sown on September 18).

.ere- Kind of trhnat Btaped Yield ago • per acre £ White Tusoan Feb 6 38 1 Marshall's White Chaff Feb 6 38 1 Tala-vera de Bellevue Feb 3s 32$ 1 Allora Spring Jan 30 46 1 Allora Spring (sown on June' 7 and 8 as & winter wheat) Jan 26 27J _•;

Experiments made with Blount'a Lambrigg wheat sown with different } quantities of seed per acre (drilled June 2 and 8 ; all reaped about the ' same date).

Acreage 1 3 1 23 Quantity mi seed 1 If Yield per acr« 31 55J 39 37J

Experiment "with Chevalier barley „ sown with different quantities o{ 3 " seed per acre (sown September 13). ";

A.cies>go < 1 1 10 Quantity of 1 3 2 seed Yield 1 per aora , 58 -i

oicaga 1 1 1 19 u amity oi ? ? seta xieiapsracr* 401-2 411-2 501-2 501-2

Experiment made with Nonpareil > wheat sown with different quantities \vi soed per acre (sown June y and 10 ; reaped February 24).