Mar. 2, 1920.] 



Agricultural Gazette of N. S, W. 



161 



Results of Spring Wheat Trials. 



Failure. 



North-western District. 



R. W. McDIARMID, Inspector of Agriculture. 



The wheat experiments conducted during the past year in the north-west 

 were located on the properties of the undermentioned farmers : — 



W. H. Lye, Loomberah, Tamworth. 



J. T. Maunder, The Wilgas, Pallamallawa. 



E. Bower, Hampton Valley, Warialda. 



W. Palmer, Pine View, Narrabri. 



J. Carroll, Oak View, Narrabri. 



Jas, Cherry, The Willows, Wee Waa. 



W. Lennox, Claremont, Baan Baa. 



Y. C. Onniston, Glenfenzie, Gunnedah. 



.J. Perry, senior, Killara, Quirindi. 



Bignall Bros., Arlington, Manilla. 



The experiments comprised variety trials, manurial trials, and a fallowing 

 test. Unfortunately the season was very unfavourable, and no grain was 

 harvested except at the three first-mentioned centres. The remaining districts 

 produced nothing ; and when it could be seen that a payable crop was impos- 

 sible, the plots, like crops in general, had to be fed to starving stock. The 

 plots harvested were also fed off early in the season, which proved, under the 

 circumstances, a disadvantage. 



The Season. 



The rainfall during the year was extremely low at each centre, and as the 

 previous year was a dry one theie was such a scarcity of moisture in the land 

 as to make failure inevitable. The autumn was very unfavourable, and the 



