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"FARM CROPS members of the Ontario Agri- cand Experimental Union sed to state that for 191g ate prepared to distribute into ry Township of Ontario material "of high quality for experiments with Grain, Fodder Crops, Roots, G asses, Clovers "and Alfalfas, as follows. -- ar List oF EXPERIMENTS FOR 1919. No. Grain Crops. Plots 1 Testing two varieties of Oats 2 + a Testing O A.C. No. 21 Barley Emmer..c.aaviiiinaiy in 2 3 Testing two varieties of Hul- less Barley... ovina 2 4 Testing two Varictios Spring heat ...i.. viii iis 2 § Testing two varieties Buck- wheat........: TT 6 Testing three varieties Field Peas. ov. iis 7 Testing two varieties "Spring Rye ici cs insiaainy 2 8 Testing three varieties Soy, Soja or Japanese Beans.... 3 Testing se o varieties Flint ree varieties gels as 11 Testing two vaneties Sugar Mangels....... ......0 0... 2 12 Testing three varicties S . dish Turnips . .... : 3 13 Testing two varieties ¥ all Turnips.. § 2 14 Testing two varieties Carrols 2 Fora, Fopper, SILAGE AND Hay Crops, 15 Testing.the planting of Corn | at six distances in the row 6} 16 Testing three varieties Millet 3 17 Testing two varieties Sorg- TRA RG PU IRR 2 18 Testing Grass Peas and two varieties Vetches...... 31 19 Testing Rape, Kaleand F field | frCabbage ..... issu inane 3} 20 Testing three varieties Clover 3 | , 21 Testing two varieties Alfalfa 2 22 Testing four varieties Grasses 4 | CuLiNnary Crops. | 23 Testing three varieties Field | Beans ..... viii iionsanes 3 24 Testing two varieties S COIR. «is as ennmsvos ass 2} FERTILIZER EXPRRIMENTS. g5 Testing Fertilizers with Rape 5 MisCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS, 29 lésting three grain mixtures for Grain production...... 3} 30 Testing three grain mixtures for Fodder production..... 3 The size of each plot is to be two rods long by one rod wide. Any person in Ontario may choose | any one of the-experiments for 1919 and apply for the same, The ma terial will be furnished in the order in which the applications. are re- ceived, while the SEPRLY lasts. Each a naka. a. second. ay ag the a ferial for the ex- periment selected as first choice ; might be exhausted before his ap- 4 plication is received. All material will be furnished free of charge to each applicant, and the produce will, of course, become the property of the person who conducts the ex- periment. Each person applying for an experiment should write his name and address very carefully, and should give the name of the i County in which be lives. C. A. ZAVITZ, Director, Ontario Agricultaral College, Guelph, March, 1919. a Bird Life. To conserve bird life for economic as well as sentimental reasons, the Canadian Government is offering prizes to school children for bird- houses and photographs of birds in their habitat. Home-grown Seed Best. Not the least valuable service per- formed by the Dominion Experi- mental Farms has been in the demon- strations given proving that certain root seeds can be grown in Canada a standard equal to the best and in stimulating this line of produe- tion in Canada. Not only have ex- periments carried on at their farms Jroved that it is possible to raise vy crops of root seed in the Dom- ier. but they have also shown that "sbed raised in Canada is at least #qual, if not superior, to any seed Sniported from other countries. ¥or 'example, four different varieties of 5 beet seed have been tried out iy different Dominion farms, and the beats 'that, on the average, show- the highest perceutage of sugar from Ontario-grown seed. showed 18.22 per cent. of while the next highest aver- was i i E : Eztix fil ¥ 4 Respected Patrons and os TES 2 Avouse and Pace the Crisis! Ontarle. BJ HE PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac- sept their food much the same as they breathe the air They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a- thing as this affecting their own dinner table nevor enters their mind, and it Is the responsibility of The Observer ~b) to bring home to its readers a realization of the fuets, as un- : less something is done, in auother year, they will not be 2 reading about the hunger in Belgium but the hunger in The following should be memorized by every reader of Tur OBSERYER. Under the 'Presidency of Mr. J. W. Woods, a Confer- ence of all interested in food production was held in To- rento on Monday, May 7. 2 AS BRR RE ® I OF COW-TESTING Liberal Feeding During Dry Period Also Necessary. The Importance of testing every cow, and of feeding liberally in the dry period, was emphasized by Mr. R. M. Holtby of Ontario county in an address delivered at the annual meeting of Durham County Holstein Breeders. "When an American Holstein cow, made a record of 50 pounds of but- ter in a week," said Mr. Holtby, "the eharacter of the cow's maternal an- testry was made the subject of in- vestigation. The mother of the 50- particular attention up to that time, different owners having remained ignorant of her capacity. But at 13 years of age she was put under test, and made a record herself of 89 pounds. If she had been properly fed and properly tested before that her real value would have been made known even before her daugh- ter set a new standard for the world in butter production. The value of ancestry, by the way, is shown not only in the fact that the cow which made 89 pounds of butter at 13 years of age produced a 50-pound daughter, but that this daughter has produced a 47-pound cow, and four females in all, some of them only heifers, that have gone over 30 pounds. Now, about feeding cows while dry. One of my cows that had been given no grain while dry, produced 62 pounds of milk«n a day and 16,- 000 pounds in a year, after freshen- ing. In preparation for her next lac- tation period I fed her 20 pounds of grain daily during her six weeks dry period, and next year she gave 85 pounds of milk in a day and 19,300 for the year, The Holstein cow on which Mr. Geo, Smith, of Port Perry, won the championship at Guelph Winter had unds ; pounds. You see what a lection in bulls there is pounder had never received any ' Gt BRITAINS:SHORTACE due to WAR 09148784 ie