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These plots show a wide difference in yield. The most prolific are Judket. Eussian 

 Hard Tag, Campbell's White Chaff and White Fife. The Eussian Hard Tag is a 

 bearded sort, with aricy kernel of inferior quality, much like goose wheat; the other 

 varieties named are all of good quality, and beardless. The Campbell's White Chaff 

 is particularly promising, as will be seen from the records of the larger field plots. 

 It also proved a heavy yielder in 1889, giving 36| bushels per acre, being 3f bushels 

 more than any other sort tested. At the branch Experimental Farms it has done 

 well during the past season , at ISTappan, N,S., the yield has been 32 bushels per acre ; 

 at Brandon, Man., 24 bushels 36 lbs. ; at Indian Head, N.W.T., 32 bushels 4 lbs. ; and 

 at Agassiz, B. C, 3 lbs. gave a return of 4S lbs. 



LARGER FIELD PLOTS. 



Campbell's White Chaff. — On sandy loam ; no manure; ^ acre. Sown 23rd April, 

 1^ bushels per acre ; harvested August 13th ; time to mature, 112 days ; even growth, 

 straw bright; stands well ; height, 4 to 4^ feet; yield per acre, 21| bushels ; weight 

 per bushel, 5*7^ lbs. One-half acre adjoining, sown at the same time, which was 

 treated with 200 lbs. of special fertilizer (400 lbs. per acre) yielded 18f bushels per 

 aero. A third ^ acre, next adjoining, treated with 200 lbs. of odorless phosphate, gave a 

 yield of 14 bushels; while a fourth ^ acre in the same series, without fertilizer, 

 yielded 17 bushels per acre. This soil was of variable character, which may account 

 for these anomalous results. There is no doubt that had the soil been uniform in 

 fertility the addition of the fertilizers would have increased the yield. 



Campbell's Triumph. — On sandy loam; no manure; 1^ acres. Sown 23rd April, 1^ 

 bushels per acre; ripe 13th August; time to mature 112 days; even growth ; straw 

 bright, and stands well; height, 3 to 4 feet; yield per acre, 12| bushels; weight per 

 bushel, 59f lbs. 



Carter's Cross-bred I or Anglo-Canadian. — On sandy loam; no manure. Sown 

 23rd April, 1 bushel per acre; ripe 13th August; time to mature, 112 days; even 

 growth; straw bright, and stands well; height, 3^ to 4|- feet; yield per acre, 5 

 hushels, weighing 51 lbs. per bushel. A third plot was that of one-tenth of an acre, 

 already reported on among the series of plots sown one week apart to test the 

 advantage of early seeding. This was sown 22nd April; was ripe 13th August; 

 time to mature, 113 days; yield per acre, 5 bushels 50 lbs. 



This new hybrid wheat, originated by James Carter & Co., of London, England, 

 and which has produced such large crops in Great Britain, has made but a poor record 

 here. It is of strong and vigorous growth, with a large bearded ear, which gave 

 promise of a good yield early in the season, but as the time of harvest approached 

 a considerable part of each head was found to be empt3\ The plants themselves 

 were so promising that I look for much better results another year, when the con- 

 ditions will probably be more favourable and the grain somewhat acclimatized. 

 That the yield obtained at Ottawa is not normal is shown by the larger crops at the 

 branch Experimental Farms. At Nappan, N.S., the yield was 29f bushels 

 ytev acre; at Brandon, Man., 26 bushels; at Indian Head, IST.W.T., 16 bushels 

 28 lbs. ; and at Agassiz, B.C., 35 lbs. were obtained from 1 pound sown. In time 

 of ripening it is six or seven days later than Ladoga. 



Judket. — On mixed clay and sandy loam ; no manure ; 2 acres. Sown 12th May, 

 1|- bushels per acre ; harvested 16th August ; time to mature, 96 days ; fair growth ; 

 not much rust; yield per acre, 11|- bushels; weight per bushel, 59 lbs. 



Eio Grande. — On sandy loam; no manure; 2 acres. Sown 23rd April, IJ bushels 

 per acre; harvested 15th August; time to mature, 114 days; straw bright, and 

 stands Avell; height, 3|- to 4J feet; yield per acre, 14 bushels, weighing 62 lbs per 

 bushel. 



SPRING WHEAT IN ROWS 2J FEET APART. 



It has been stated that wheat yields large crops when grown in drills 2| feet 

 apai-t, the land being kept clean with a horse cultivator. Nine varieties of wheat 

 were sown in this manner on sandy loam, which was manured in the spring of 1890, 



