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White Conneil is very much like the White Fife, and may be only an improved 

 strain of that variety. Ii is generally very productive, with bright strong straw, free 

 of ru8t, and is not inclined to smut. It is like the White Fife in not readily showing 

 the effects of a slight frost. We have reports from farmers of large yields from seed 

 of this vai-iety supplied by the Experimental Farm. 



Red Fern or Eureka is a hard red-bearded wheat, generally maturing from four 

 to six days earlier than Red Fife ; being a very dark wheat it shows the effects of even 

 a slight frost very quickly. 



Saxonka is a Eussian bearded wheat four to seven days earlier than Eed Fife, 

 and very vigorous generally, but rusted badly on the low land this year. 



Golden Drop is a square-headed, bald wheat, much softer than Red Fife, but 

 thi-ee to SIX days earlier, but scarcely as productive. This wheat was much sought after 

 in this province 15 years age, but is too soft for present markets. 



Defiance is a red bald wheat, very similar to the Eed Fife, but with us very little 

 earlier. 



Ladoga has done remarkably well on this farm, when grown on high well drained 

 land, a seven-acre field of this character the past season yielding 33 bushels of No. 

 1 wheat, weighing 60 lbs. per bushel, and ripening 13th August, or 13 days before 

 fi'ost, but the vallej' evidently does not suit it so well, the yield there being small 

 -and the grain frozen. On high, well-drained land it is certainly from seven to ten 

 days earlier than Red Fife, but not quite so productive. 



Indian Hard Calcutta. — This, like all Indian wheats, is short in the straw and 

 -eai'ly to ripen. It is not generally vei-y productive and suffered badly by rust during 

 the past season. It is bearded. 



Gehun. — Another Indian wheal, but bald, with very short stiff straw. It matures 

 early and was very productive at Indian Head last year, but has rusted both here 

 ■and at Indian Head this season. 



Campbell's White Chaff is a large-headed buld wheat, with about one-third of 

 the grains hard; balance soft; evidently it is hiirdening here; it is a few days earlier 

 than Eed Fife and fairly productive ; not thoroughly tested here yet. 



Whe 4T. 



Variety. 



Rio Grande 



Pringle's Champlain . . 



White Conneil 



Defiance 



Saxonka 



Red Fern or Eureka. . . 



Judket , . . 



Russian Hard Tag. .. 



Red Fife 



White Fife 



Gehun 



Indian Hard Calcutta. 



Ladoga 



Colorado 



Australian 



Sown. 



April 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



do 13. 



Harvested 



Aug. 31. 



do 30., 

 Sept. 1 . 



do 1. 

 Aug. 24., 



do 31. 

 Sept. 2., 

 Aug. 27., 

 Sept. 2. 



do 1., 

 Aug. 22. 



do 25. 



do 26. 



do 27. 



do 26. 



1) 



Days. 



140 

 1?,'J 

 141 

 141 

 133 

 140 

 142 

 136 

 142 

 141 

 131 

 134 

 135 

 136 

 135 





Bsh. Lbs. 



36 10 



34 40 



34 30 



34 10 



33 50 



32 30 



32 20 



32 10 



29 40 



29 10 



29 10 



27 20 



22 30 



20 30 



15 50 



(.1 



Lbs. 



55 



54J 



53 



54^ 



54 



55 



54 



5Si 



47i 



50 



57i 



54' 



491 



47 



47i 



"I 



Weak . . 

 Fair .. . . 

 do . . . . 

 Weak . 

 Lodged . 



do .. 



do .. 



do .. 



do .. 



do .. 

 Strong. . 

 Lodged. 



Fair 



Lodged. 

 Strong. . 



o 



a,'— I 

 ^4 



Inch. 



4i 

 Sh 

 3 



H 



3 



3i 



3 



3 



3 



3 



2i 



3" 



3 



3 



2i 



Note. — Red Fife, White Fife and Ladoga slightly injured by winds. 



