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WHEATS IN THE VALLEY. 



Besides the varieties sown on backsetting, 32 varieties were sown after fodder 

 corn in the valley. 



These plots were all under half an acre, and were sown from the Tth to the 23rd 

 of April. In this case also one plot in each block was sown with Red Fife. 



Some of the noticeable wheats among these are Hard Calcutta, one of the best 

 Indian wheats, fairly pi oductive, and 13 days earlier than Red Fife ; Wellman's 

 Fife, a good hard variety, four days earlier than Red Fife, and a heavy cropper ; 

 French Imperial, 10 days earlier than Fife, productive but rather soft. 



Two of Carter's cros^bi'ed wheats were also tested in these plots, one of them 

 ripened with the Red Fife, and the other 26 days later. In neither case was the 

 sample equal to Red Fife, 



Results of Tests with Wheat sown in vallev. 



Sown. 



Red Fife, No. 24 



Colorado 



Blue Stem 



Herison's Beardless 



Wellman's Fife 



French Imperial 



Hard Calcutta 



Lahoul, from India 



Hueston's . . 



Talavera 



Club Calcutta 



Red Fife, No. 37... 



Hungarian Mountain 



Indian Karachi 



Wheat, No. 1,701 



Paine's Defiance 



Magyar 



Greek Summer 



Simla, from India 



Campbell's Triumph 



G-reen Mountain 



Pringle's Cham plain 



Soft Red Calcutta 



Chilian White 



Spiti Valley 



Defiance, J. A. Bruce 



Red Fife, No. 49 



Carter's Selection, I 



Carter's Selection, D 



Red Fife, No. 52 



Assinaboia 



Newton Club, Fallow land- 

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FROZEN WHEAT FOR SEED. 



A quantity of frozen seed from the crop of 1888 was procured and sown in 

 adjoining half acre plots of new land, at the rate of 2 bushels per acre, sown broad- 

 cast. The soil was apparently uniform and the test complete. 



Although the loss from slightly frozen grain was small, the No. 3, or badly 

 frozen seed, gave considerably loss than the No. 1 hard, and in an unfavourable 

 season the difference would no doubt bo greater. 



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