104 Agricultural Gazette ofN.S.W. [Feb. 2, 1920. 



Llangothlin. — The plots here were used for a comparative test between 

 Early Yellow Dent and Canada Early Flint ; the sowing was made on 6th 

 November (without manure) in rich potato land. The previous crop was 

 potatoes. The land was ploughed in the erirlj autumn and left exposed to 

 the weather during the winter months. It was harrowed down and re- 

 ploughed prior to sowing by hand. The germination and growth were in 

 each case good. Rainfall figures are not available, but it was insufficient for 

 the potato crops. Both varieties were harvested for grain. 



The test resulted as follows : — Early Yellow Dent, 27 bushels per acre ; 

 Canada Early Flint, 18 bushels. 



Tenterfield. — These plots were on the usual granitic soil, which was 

 ploughed in August, and harrowed, cultivated, and harrowed again in 

 November, just prior to sowing. The seed was sown on 1 2th November, 

 and single grains dropped 18 inches apart in drills 4 feet 6 inches apart, 

 with 1 cwt. superphosphate per acre. The germination and early growth 

 were good. Cultivation between the rows was well attended to, and weeds 

 kept down. The rainfall was deficient in Januaiy. but otherwise fairly 

 good. The registration from sowing until the end of March amounted 

 to 18-83 inches. Results : — 



Varieties. 



Yield per acre. 



Early Yellow Dent .. 

 Brewer's Yellow Dent 

 Golden Glow 

 King of the Earlies .. 



bus. lb. 

 15 23 

 •21 l.S 

 17 

 23 



Kemarks. 



The earliest maturing varieties were North-western Dent and United 

 States No. 133. These varieties are only small-growing types, with small 

 cobs, near the ground, and small grains ; they should prove useful in 

 districts regarded as too dry for the ordinary types. More ex tensive sowings 

 will be made this year at Pallamallawa. 



Canada Early Flint proved earlier than Early Yellow Dent grown under 

 the same conditions, but was not equal to it in yield, and is not likely 

 to be grown where Early Yellow Dent will mature. It suckers abundantly, 

 with small cobs and small hai'd grains. Of the new varieties. Golden Glow 

 matured ahead of Early Yellow Dent, and Brewer's Yellow Dent a few 

 days later : both appear to be very promising varieties. At Tenterfield they 

 both outyielded Early Yellow Dent, and showed better types of cobs and 

 grain King of the Earlies is not so early as Early Yellow Dent; it has 

 a small cob with very deep grains on a very small core. 



Funk's Y(!llow Dent was sown in two plots at Inverell, and the local, 

 or acclimatised, seed gave a marked inci-ease in yield per acre. Leggett's 

 Pride and Silverniine gave vevy satisfactory yields at Inverell, and promise 

 good results in years of little rainfall. 



