Sessional Papers of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario Volume 34

Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario Volume 34 written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...used on each plot was carefully counted, and an equal number was used of each selection in each of the years in which this experiment has been conducted. As the selection for this experiment has been ccntinuoue, selectiug the seed each year from the crop produced in the year previous, the average results are of but little value, but the final results are interesting, valuable, and quite suggestive. In the crop produced in 1901, it was found that the large plump seed produced 44.4 bushels; the light seed, 28.5 bushels; and the hulled seed, 37.0 bushels per acre. In weight per measured bushel, the crop produced from the large plump seed weighed five pounds more than that produced from the light seed, and practically the same as that produced from the hulled seed. From the results here presented, it will be seen that the seed which was hulled by the separator produced fairly good results in yield of grain per acre and in weight per measured bushel. When it is considered that it is only a well-developed seed having a large kernel and a thin hull that will be hulled in the threshing, and that the hulllng seems to cause but little injury to the germination of the seed, the good results from the hulled seed appear to be quite reasonable. The d-fi'erence, however, between the large, plump, well-developed seed and the light-weighing and light-colored seed is very marked, and shows the great importance of sewing the former and discarding the latter. GRAIN caows IN MIX1URE8 roa run monucrron or Guam AND Srasw. ln an extensive experiment conducted for six years in succession in growing oats, spring wheat, barley and peas, separately and in various combinations for the production of grain and straw, it was found that a mixture of barley and oats gave...