106 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-6 EDWARD Vll., A. 1903 



EXPEEIMENTS WITH FALL WHEAT. 



Seven varieties of fall wheat were so\vii on October 15, 1904. The land where these 

 were sown is a sandy or gravelly loam, which had clover stubble turned under in the 

 summer, after which the land was harrowed once a week, until the seed was sown. The 

 plots were one-fortieth of an acre each, and the seed was sown at the rate of one and a 

 half bushels per acre. Six of the varieties came through the winter and gave a fair 

 yield, but the variety known as Choice Club was so completely winter killed that not 

 half a dozen plants were left in the spring. There was no rust or smut on any of these 

 plots. 



Eall Wheat — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Abundance 



Turkey Red 



American Banner 



Kharkov ... 



Dawson's Golden Cliaff. 



Red Velvet Chaff ". 



Choice Club 







Lbs. 



65 



65 



631 



65^ 



634 



64* 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPEING WHEAT. 



Twenty-eight varieties of spring wheat were sown in plots of one- fortieth of an 

 acre each. The previous crop was clover, which was cut in June of 1904 and the after- 

 growth turned under in September and cut with the disc and harrowed to rot the sod. 

 Sown April 18 at the rate of ninety pounds of seed per acre, the stand was uniform, 

 the growth vigorous and the heads long, but a bad attack of midge nearly destroyed 

 the crop. The spring wheat over most of the lower Eraser valley was so badly injured 

 by this pest that many fields were not cut, but were harvested by pigs. Fortunately, 

 spring wheat is not very much grown in that part of the province. There w^s no rust 

 on any of these plots. 



