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APPENDIX No. 4. Yield of Grain for Years 1883 to 1891.

APPENDIX No. 5. Showing the Cropping of the Farm, 1891.

APPENDIX No. 6. On the Value to the Farmer of Soil Analysis, by W. E. Ivey, M.8.A.C., F.C.S., F.1.C., &c. That the chemical analysis of soils is of considerable scientific value all experts will allow, but that the analysis of the soils of his farm will afford the ordinary farmer much assistance in profitable cropping or in manuring will not be so readily granted. It is a more or less general impression with many who have but a superficial knowledge of agricultural chemistry that, by determining in a soil the quantities of those substances it contains which are required by plants as food, it would be possible for the chemist, having an exact knowledge of the composition and requirements of plants, to advise the farmer as to the kinds of crops he should grow; or, as the farmer would say, what crops his soil is fitted for, and as to the kinds of manure he should apply in order to make up apparent deficiencies in his soil, and thus restore the fertility thereof. The notion that it is possible, from the mere inspection of the statement of the percentage

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Bushels per Acre. Harvest of Wheat. Oats. Total Grain Grown (Bushels). Barley. Average. .883 ... .884 ... .885 ... .886 ... .887 ... .888 ... 889 ... 890 ... .891 ... 40 81| 441 30i 25f 40' 33 42i 27 441 57 54f 41* 30 40 62 63i 29i 52 17 47i 19i 371 371 20i 35" 13* 42i 35i 471 31i 29 39 35 45i 27" 8,582 7,513 11,400 6,892 5,848 7,952 7,009 9,200 4,915 Average of nine years 35 47 31} 37 7,701

No. of Field. Kind. Acreage. Totals;. Vheat rt ' • • • • * // • • • ' •' 1 15 26 28 33 White Tuscan Essex rough chaff Golden drop ... Velvet Minnesota, hard A. E. P. 22 0 0 24 3 0 26 0 0 9 2 0 16 0 0 A. E. P. „ ... ... )ats 14 16 24 Canadian ... ... :.. Sparrow-bill ... Long Tartarian 24 3 0 24 3 0 21 1 0 98 1 K ... ... 70 3 Sarley 6 23 Golden melon ... Winter 16 1 0 3 0 0 3eans 30 30 23 3 25 Tick ... Dun ... Golden Winter barley Vetches and oats 19 1 13 0 7 1 3 0 Jeas fetches Spring feed 19 1 0 15 3 0 fallow For roots Eotation grasses Permanent pasture I 35 0 86 1 156 2 126 1 )ccupied by building! mental plots, roads, Total available area 3, plantations, orchard and garden, experiilaces, &c. 615 2 3, yard! waste i 46 1 Gran* 1 total 661 3