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Excerpt from Experimental Farms, 1890: Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Agriculture While it must be admitted that such tests will need to be repeated many times, in order to reach averages which may neutralize the variations brought about in crops by varying seasons, there is nevertheless such a regularity in the falling off in yield week after week, as to carry with it convincing proof of the heavy losses which are almost sure to occur where late seeding is practised. The loss on Prize Prolific barley by a delay of one week in sowing is nearly 16 bushels per acre, and on Danish Chevalier a little more than 11 bushels, while a delay of two weeks shows an average Ioss of more than half the cr0p. The area under barley in Ontario in 1890 is estimated at 7 acres, and if but half of the average loss which was found to occur in the experiments with the Prize Prolific barley in Ottawa be taken as a basis for an esti mate, it would appear that the farmers of Ontario may lose, by a delay of one week in the time of seeding, over two and-a-half millions of dollars on the barley crop alone, and by a delay of two weeks more than three and three-quarter millions, reckoning the barley at 50 cents per bushel. The loss from similar delay in the wheat crop has proved proportionately less, being about one-sixth of the crop where seeding has been delayed one week, one fourth where it has been' deferred for two weeks, while a three weeks delay shows a loss of considerably more than one-half. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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