FOR THE PRACTICAL FARMER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 8

FOR THE PRACTICAL FARMER.

t Slinjli. EXPERIMENTS.

Valuable experiment work is being car,„";i'ritjed ,on-by fafmers and. officers of the o'^A^icultural • on. a piece, of, ' V About 20 'tacres wore, Mr. ,'J." G. Wilson, ,y ; '.<of; Bulls, for; .the..purpose ''of - exper imcnt;':r:v .fing, the.offcr was! accepted,' and, the work .■ progress soma time. The Pjßrouhd; has thoadvantago of being quite ' ••®19 60 to tho'rMlway. station.\~Ohe of the ;V ; -..'ipprtics most interested,in th'o. work has i The Dojilvkji particulars of what • J - '"j;OK«' qf„ the.'ideas is to: grow-.for ..trial f , fmirposes • wheat,'.oats,.'.maize;, peas, ;,etc; yrJf&nures- will. be. tested..An endeavour. ;;'j ; i ' r Vis-to .be: .ihado .to, find .out which is the [j':;. V;bosfc.crop for.summer feed., V are being made to ascer-:-ta.in which.istho best rust-resistant oat. :i V "Sgmo of the strips aro half an;acre, and ii;.;.\l-spnlo; an acre ; in area. . ? Half lof " the- number ■ of;, strips • is, limed, 'V ahd ; the'other. : half,is' not. ' The rotation ' of crops',; is being, carefully studied. Then | thoquestidn of .bacteria is being corisid- . ' . . ered. '• ' . ..'■ , ... f lot of. .barleys from Sweden, and .;,ilarrer .wheat from Australia have been ■iji vieawji, and they aro to bp.tested for their of ? 'y;(,% •.» •:.• i, £.• v t[ ' .f'i 'It is .hoped. that ajjood deal'of jenowuseful; to . practical farmers will be .'Collected.,v Farmers ,wiil-be at liberty to p i;: '.(inspect the plots, .and all . v information 1.-i bo given them. Agriculturists i*:ho. believe that can toll exactly L ' . twhafc kind ,of .manure is needed for a foil jowept .through nractical.. tests'; will find ( i; Ithw , plots of great' interest, - • ' -' ; !iTh» «rperiment* -afo: in charge: of - Jlr. fi?-.-;- JG.-Hrjttylis*; Fields''lftstructar in. the v.;fDenartment. of Agriculture. The land >*nd \ the. labour-were found by. Mr. Wiland" the. Denartment su'oplied the L . '.weds and'supervises the experiments.