REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. SnARPE 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BIACAHONI WHEAT — TKST OF VARIETIES. 



459 



Name of Variety. 



Goosb 



Mahmoudi 



Yellow Gharnovka. 

 Roumanian 



Date 



of 



Ripen- 



insr. 



Aug. 15. 

 >. 20. 

 „ 19. 

 .. 17. 



2.^ 



112 

 114 

 IIG 

 114 



50 



S 



In. 



47 



48 

 4G 

 48 



Character 

 • of 

 Straw. 



Stiflf and bright. 



Proportion 

 Rusted. 



Xo rust or smut. 



EMMER AND SPELT. 



Four plots of tliis class were sown alongside of the wheat plots. The yields are 

 very fair and the straw is bright and clean, and is eaten by cattle as a change in their 

 rations, more readily than wheat or oat straw. From reports of samples sent to the 

 dry parts of the interior it has in each case given satisfactory yields, but the bearded 

 sorts are disliked. 



EMMEU AND SPELT — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Common Eramer. .... 



Red Kmmer 



Red .S))olt 



Sfxtith Dakota No. 524 



Wlii to Spelt 



Bouth Dakota No. 3. . 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Aug. 20. 

 ., 20. 

 I, 19. 

 I. 18. 

 ,1 20. 



n 19 



Character 



of 



.Straw. 



Weak . . 



Strong. . 

 Medium 



II 



wJak . . 



-a 

 «-i ^ 



O 1) 



to 



1-^ 



In. 



2 

 3 



3i 

 1h 

 5' 

 2 



Kind 



of 

 Head. 



Bearded. , 

 II . . 

 Eeardle.ss. 

 Bearded . , 

 Beardle.is. 

 Bearded. . 



Weight 



of 

 Straw. 



Lbs. 



5,300 

 5,600 

 5,840 

 5,G80 

 5,240 

 5,520 



Weight 



of Grain as 



threshed. 



Lbs. 



1,920 

 1.810 

 1.680 

 1,660 

 1,590 

 1,470 



PEASE. 



Thirty-three varieties of field pease were tested this year. They were sown on 

 snndy loam which had a heavy growth of clover turned under. The land was in apple 

 orchard and although a strip of six feet on each side of the rows of apple trees was 

 left unsown, yet the shade of the trees injured the crop and lessened the yield. The 

 clear dry weather at harvest time allowed the crop to be harvested in good condition. 



Th.e following is a statement of the yields computed from plots of one-fortieth of 

 an acre each. 



