REPORT OF MR. G. H. HUTTON 



343 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



WINTER WHEAT— QUANTITIES OF SEED PER ACRE. 



Not having sufficient land in condition for winter wheat no tests were conducted 

 with quantities ■ of seed on summer-fallow. Owing to the fact that the timothy sod 

 v/as not well subdued, more seed was used than would be necessary under average 

 conditions. In 1908, when weather conditions permitted, a thorough working of the 

 sod, seed was sown from 15 lbs. per acre up to 120 lbs., each plot being seeded one 

 peck heavier than the preceding one. This experiment was also repeated on summer- 

 fallow, but results of yields are not, of course, available for this report. 



Winter Wheat — Quantities of Seed per Acre. 



Variety. 



Turkey Red. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING WHEAT. 



All plots of spring wheat looked very promising until late in July, when blight 

 appeared on those plots marked with an asterisk. The wheat Chelsea gives evidence 

 of being a good yielder and is also a wheat of good quality. Downy Riga ripened 

 earliest and was a good sample. 



The land was all timothy sod ploughed after the hay was cut, and well worked 

 during the fall. Seed was sown on April 10 at the rate of 1^ bushels per acre. The 

 soil was a clay loam of medium quality. 



All plots were one-sixtieth of an acre. 



Sprlng Wheat — Test of Varieties. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



1> 



13 



Name of Variety. 



Chelsea 



Bishop 



Preston 



Huron 



Pringle's Champlain. 



Stanley 



White Russian 



Hungarian White. . . 



Downy Riga D 



White Fife 



Marquis 



Percy A 



*Red Fern 



14,*RedFifeH. 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Medium. 



Medium. 

 Stiff 



T3 



iS 

 0) 



w 



o 

 a 



In. 



Kind 



of 

 Head. 



Beardless 

 Bearded 



Beardless 



H 



3 



3 



n 



3 



3i 



3| 1 Bearded 

 3i Beardles.s 

 3" 

 oa 



3^ Bearded 

 3| Beardless 



u 





Lbs. 



3,900 

 6,120 

 4,800 

 3,810 

 4,680 

 5,610 

 5,340 

 5,f^40 

 4,440 

 6,720 

 3,660 

 3,420 

 2,760 

 3,420 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



3 _0 



46 .. 



43 .. 



39 .. 



37 30 



36 .. 



35 30 



35 



32 



31 



31 



30 



28 



28 



18 



s g-= 



. ^ !o c3 



Lbs. 



61| 



61 



6U 



62 



6U 



61" 



58i 



6lS 



63i 



57* 



63"" 



60^ 



(Oh 



58i 



Rusted. 



None. 



Slight} 

 None. 



Slightly. 

 None. 



Slightly. 

 None. 



