250 



TEST OF SOME NEW WHEATS 



Some of the following varieties of wheat wei"e received late and were sown 

 separate from the above series on back-setting. For a comparison Eed Fife wa* 

 sown in the centre plot 



Blue Stem, a variety grown extensively in South Dakota and Minnesota, is a 

 handsome plant with a blueish tinted straw and velvet chaff. It is very pi-oductive, 

 but it is no earlier than Red Fife, and the grain is softer. The vei-y light weight of 

 the Delhi and Kent wheat was, no doubt, caused by rust. 



WHEAT — ONE-ACRE PLOTS. 



Variety. 



Old Red River 



Red Fife 



Ladoga 



Golden Drop . 

 Australian .... 



April 10 . 

 do 10.. 

 do 10.. 

 do 10.. 

 do 10.. 



Rust. 



Slight 



do 



do 



Straw rusted 

 Very badly. 



go: 



1-3 



Inch. 



48 

 50 

 53 

 48 

 49 



be s 



Inch. 



3 

 3 



4 



31 



TEST OF CUTTINO WHEAT AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF RIPENESS. 



During the past four or five years the practice of cutting wheat more or le.-^s 

 green has grown rapidly in this country, until at the present time there is scarcely 

 a farmer who doe.s not practice it to a greater or less extent. When cut at a too 

 early stage the berry is much shrivelled and the yield reduced. To determine the 

 extent of this reduction the following experiments were undertaken : — 



Three adjoining plots were sown at the same time with Red Fife and cut at 

 three different dates; the first two cuttings escaped the frost, but the grain was 

 much shrivelled, especially from the first cutting. It will be seen by the following 

 tables that in spite of the shrivelled appearance of the sample cut on the 24th of 

 August it brought the highest price per bushel and yielded the most money per 

 acre. It is almost unnecessary to explain that if the sample cut in September had 

 escaped the frost the result would have been quite different; it would then have 

 brought 75 cents per bushel, or 823.50 per .icre. 



