REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



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The parentage of the cross-bred varieties referred to in the table is as follows : — 



(Bearded) Preston — Ladoga female and Red Fife male. 



(Beardless) Percy — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



(Beardless) Stanley — Ladoga female and Red Fife male. 



(Bearded) Advance — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



(Bearded) Crown — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



(Bearded) Ottawa — Ladoga female and Red Fife male. 



(Beardless) Major C No. 2 sport — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



(Beardless) Captor C 1888 — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



(Bearded) Blenheim — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



(Bearded) Huron — Ladoga female and White Fife male. 



Thirty grains of each of the following cross-bred varieties recently originated at the 

 Central Farm at Ottawa were sown in drills — the No. 1 variety was the most promising, 

 having well filled heads. 



All the grain was bright and hard, the quantity sown was not large enough to 

 permit of the yield per acre being given. 



Name of Variety. 



Red Fife, female, Abundance, 

 male 



Red Fife, female, Gehun, male 



Hard Red Calcutta, female, 

 Red Fife, male 



Red Fife, female, Campbell's 

 W. Chaff, male 



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None. 



A Test op Rolling Wheat. 



The use of land rollers after the grain is sown, was almost abandoned a few years 

 ago ; latterly a number of farmers are reviving their use and with apparent good 

 results. 



The chief objection to the use of rollers on light land is the tendency to injury 

 from wind storms exposing the seed; by rolling before the grain is drilled in this diffi- 

 culty is largely overcome, owing to an absence of severe wind storms the advantage 

 of this plan was not fully tested this year. This year there has been a slight apparent 

 gain from rolling which is sufficient to more than pay for the work. The tests were 

 made on plots of ^ acre, soil gravelly loam. 



