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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Spring Wheat. 



Thirty varieties of wheat were sown in plots of one-twentieth acre each on clayey 

 loam soil. 



The crop being more or less affected with red rust or leaf blight was not quite up 

 to the average, although the kernels were plump and heavy, and of a good quality ; the 

 straw was stiff, but all more or less rusted. 



The following table gives yield per acre, character of the different varieties, &c. 

 The soil was clay loam, and the seed was sown at the rate of If bushels per acre. The 

 land was in roots in 1893 : — 



Spring wheat — Test of varieties. 



M ame of variety. 



ho 



B 

 O 



ai 



o 



CD 

 c« 

 ft 



Dion's 



Stanley 



Great Western 



Abundance 



Red Fife 



Red Fern 



Campbell's White Chaff 



Pre? ton 



Percy 



Prince 



Beta 



Rio Grande 



Alpha 



White Connell . . ..... 



Hungarian Mountain. 

 Herisson Bearded .... 



Ladoga 



Defiance 



Albert 



Pringle's Champlain. . 



White Fife 



Black .Sea 



Carleton 



Crown 



Colorado 



WeUman's Fife 



Advance 



Ottawa 



Hueston 



Glengarry (D. Fraser) 



May 



d 



© fab 

 Q 



Sept. 3 



Aug. 22 



" 31 



" 23 



" 30 



Sept. 



Aug. 23 



" 30 



" -29 



" 22 



" 23 



" 31 



" 30 



" 31 



Sept. 1 



Aug. 26 



" 21 



Sept. 3 



Aug. 23 



" 23 



Sept. 3 



Aug. ?3 



" 23 



" 28 



" 21 



Sept. 3 



Aug. 23 



" 22 



" 31 



Sept. 4 



bo 



.5 

 -§3 



118 



106 



115 



107 



114 



116 



107 



114 



113 



106 



107 



115 



114 



115 



116 



110 



105 



118 



107 



107 



118 



107 



10' 



112 



105 



117 



107 



106 



115 



119 



In. 



O 



46'Stiff. 



38 



44 



43 

 41 

 33 

 34 

 38 

 45 

 39 

 39 

 43 

 39 

 41 

 40 

 4<i 

 40 

 3S 



39 

 36 

 38 



39 



43 



39 



42 



42 Medium 



39iStiff. 



40 



39 



40 



Medium 

 Stiff..... 

 Medium 

 Stiff 



13 



c3 



K 



O 



Bearded . . 

 Beardless. 



Bearded . . 



it 



Beardless , 

 Bearded . . 

 Beardless , 

 Bearded . , 

 Beardless . 

 Bearded . , 



Beardless 



Bearded 



Beardless 



Bearded 

 a 



Beardless 

 Bearded 



Beardless 

 Bearded 



u 



Beardless 



Proportion 

 Rusted. 



Very slightly. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 



Very slightly. 



Considerably . 



Badly. 



Slightly. 



Very slightly. 



Badly. 



a 



Slightly. 



Very slightly. 



Slightly. 



Very slightly. 



Badly. 



Very slightly. 



Slightly. 



H 



Badly. 



it 



Considerably . 

 Slightly. 

 Very slightly. 



Considerably . 

 Slightly. 

 Very badly. 



Note. — The weights per bushel given here, and also in all other grain tables in this 

 report, were taken from the grain as it came from the threshing mill, and are not the 

 maximum weights that the grain could be brought to by cleaning. 



