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protected the grain during the most severe storms, while the grain on the unprotected 

 portion of the field was bared to the roots and severely injured, and in some cases 

 killed outi-ight. 



A noticeable feature in these plots is the very slight difference in time between 

 the ripening of the different varif^ties ; as none were injured by frost all ripened 

 fully, and were cut at the same degree of ripeness; the dates given are therefore 

 accurate. All the varieties in these plots were cut before frost and were quite free 

 from rnst, smut, &c., and both grain and straw were as nearly perfect as possible, 

 the light character of the soil just suiting th ? past season. 



Wheats sown on Upland Prairie, summer fallowed; size of plots, one-fifth acre, sown 

 with Press Drill, 6 pecks per acre ; soil, light sandy loam. 



Variety. 



• 



Red Fife ." 



Old Rod River.... 



Pringle's Champlain 



Campbell's White Chaff 



Chilian \Vhite 



WeUman's Fife 



Headed. 



July 22 

 do 9 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 



6U 



61 



6U 



60| 



CO 



60 



Upland Pi-airie ; plots one-tenth of an acre ; very light loam soil. 



Variety. 



Red Fife 



Green Mountain 



Hungarian Mountain. 



Assiniboine 



Hard Calcutta 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



45 5 



42 20 



42 .. 



38 10 



30 20 



Lbs. 



61i 



6l| 



62 



60^ 



61 



Below will be found a list of wheats grown in the valley on clay loam, a soil 

 not well adapted for a season like the last. It will be noticed by the weight of the 

 grain that all suffered more or less from frost and many of them from lUst as well. 

 The heavy storm-of 6th August badly lodged some of the varieties; this greatly 

 encouraged rust. Owing to frost the exact date of ripening of some of the varieties 

 could not be obtained and ai-e only given as approximate. In view of the fact that 

 wheat holds such an important place in the products of the country, and that so much 

 attention has been drawn to the importance of securing early-ripening varieties, it 

 has been thought advisable to give full notes of a ^ew of the leading varieties. 



Unfi-ozen Red Fife is no doubt the standard variety in this province, for both 

 quality and productiveness; and if it were only a week or ten days earlier it would 

 be almost impossible to improve on it, but it is certainly later by some days than 

 many other sorts. 



White Fife. — This excellent white wheat is being increasingly grown in the 

 province. Its freedom from smut and rust, and the fact of it not readily showing the' 

 elfect of a slight frost, have all tended to increase its cultivation; it matures with and 

 yields about the same as Red Fife. 



