WHEATS AND FLOURS OF AROOSTOOK COUNTY 



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WEIGHTS OF KERNELS AND PERCENTAGES OF PROTEIN IN MINNESOTA 

 PARENT WHEATS AND THEIR MAINE ASD MINNESOTA GROWN 

 PROGENY. 





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Weight of 

 100 Kernels. 



Protein. 





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6622 Parent grown in Northwest 1900 

 6617 From 6622 grown in Houlton 1901. 

 6772 From 6622 grown in Houlton 1902. 



6770 



From 6617 grown in Houlton 1902.. 



6714 Parent grown in Minn. 1901. 



6774 

 6769 



6716 



6775 

 6768 



Progeny grown in Minn. 1902. 

 Progeny grown in Maine 1902. 



Parent grown in Minn. 1901 



Progeny grown in Minn. 1902 • 11.93 



Progenj' grown in Maine 1902 



Per 

 cent. 



16.32 



12.76 



15.55 



15.57 



18.98 

 14.65 

 15.66 



15.65 

 15.46 

 16.10 



The first of these trials with Bhie Stem in Aroostook resulted 

 in a loss of protein of nearly 4 per cent; yet on the following 

 year a planting from the same seed and another from the original 

 Minnesota wheat brought the protein back to within one per cent 

 of the parent wheat. What the result from another planting 

 might be, it is impossible to predict. 



Equally inconclusive are the results obtained with the ^Nlinn. 

 i8i wheat. This variety planted in ]\Iaine lost over 3 per cent 

 in a single season ; planted in Minnesota, it lost over 4 per cent. 

 The ]\Iinn. 851 lost no protein when grown in Aroostook, 

 although the western grown crop experienced a slight reduction. 



These curiously varying results seem to admit but one safe 

 conclusion, viz. : That merely temporary or extremely local con- 

 ditions of season and soil may obscure or counterbalance a ten- 

 dency the existence of which can be fully established only by 



