From the archives: Crop experiments in Roxburghshire, 1 September, 1922

AN INSPECTION has been held at various farms in the Kelso district at which tests in the growing of cereals and potatoes are being conducted by the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture.

At Kersmains, Roxburgh, the tenant (J.M. Donald) specialises in growing oats for seed purposes, and Yielder, Victory, Crown, Record, Beseler, Ascot and Abundance have been the varieties tested. Grown after turnips, there is an exceptionally good crop on all plots. Yielder is ten days earlier than the others, but is darker in the straw; while two Victory plots – one with imported and the other with home-grown seed – show little or no variation. Experiments have also been conducted at this farm in the destruction of charlock, and particulars show sulphate of copper to be most effective, closely followed by kainit and salt, sulphate of ammonia being least effective.

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