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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Red Wheats. 



Red I^Iay, Mediterranean, Arnold's Ilybrid, Nursery, Red Russian, Dott and 

 Lammas. 



Hyhrids. 



Armstrong and Lancaster, Deilil and Lancaster, Deihl and Amber, Arm- 

 strong and White Amber, Deihl and Egyptian Red, Deiiil and Treadwell, Arm- 

 strong, Deilil and Treadwell, Clawson and Deihl (the latter cross-fertilized bv 

 direction of Prof. Beal in 187S), Asiatic and Gold Medal (cross-fertilized as 

 above). 



Of these single varieties several did well. I will mention particularly the 

 Clawson, Deihl, Treadwell, Tappahannock, Silver Chaff, Jennings' White, and 

 Arnold's Gold Medal, among the white wheats; the Fultz and Shumaker, of 

 the amber varieties ; Russian Red, Arnold's Hybrid and Mediteranean, among 

 the red wheats. The hybrids all did fairly well ; the cross between Deihl and 

 Treadwell giving a nice plump wheat of fine appearance. Straw strong, and 

 stood up well. The crosses with the Lancaster as one foundation seem to 

 promise most uniformly good results. The Lancaster is of itself a good strong 

 variety of wheat, a good yielder and a thrifty grower. 



Heads of Wheat. 



Three heads of wheat were sown with the grains in the same relative posi- 

 tion as in the head, each grain being sown by itself and eight inches from its 

 neighboring kernel. This was done in order to notice the difference of growth, 

 yield, etc., of grains in different portions of the head. 



The heads were harvested and the number produced by each grain carefully 

 counted, their total length measured, the total grains produced estimated 

 very closely by counting the ranks of kernels. The longest head measured 

 and recorded, and in two of the heads the number of grains of wheat counted 

 in the longest head produced by each stool of wheat. The following table of 

 averages was obtained by taking the upper ^, the lower \ and the middle ^ of 

 the head as sown. 



Head No. 1. 



Upper X 



Middle X 



Lower J^ 



Head No. 2. 



Upper K 



Middle }^ 



Lower }i 



Head No. 3 



Upper M 



Middle V, 



Lower U 



