REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FALL WHEAT. 



The number of varieties of fall wheat under trial during the past season was 

 twenty-two. Their names were as follows: — Poole, Gold Coin, Dawson's Golden 

 Chaff, Bonnell, Standard, Winter King, Early Eipe, Red Velvet Chaff, Jones' Winter 

 Fife, Pride of Illinois, American Bronze, Early Red Clawson, Russian Amber, Long 

 Berry Red, Early Gennessee Giant, Buda Pesth, Reliable, Golden Cross, Imperial . 

 Amber, Tasmania Red, Egyptian and Velvet Chaff. These were all sown in plots of' 

 one-fortieth acre each, on September 13, 1899. The winter was unfavourable for this 

 ■crop, and in the spring of 1900 all the plots were found to be so badly winter-killed 

 that they were not worth leaving, and were ploughed under. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING WHEAT. 



Seventy-two varieties of spring wheat have been tested in the uniform trial plots 

 during the past season. The soil was a heavy sandy loam of fairly good quality, 

 slightly mixed with clay, which received a dressing of about 15 tons of barn-yard 

 manure per acre in the spring of 1897. No fertilizer has been applied since. The 

 previovis crop was hay. The land was ploughed late in the autumn to the depth of 

 about seven inches, and left in that state until the following spring, when it was 

 harrowed twice with the disc-harrow and twice with the smoothing harrow before 

 sowing. The size of the plots was one-fortieth acre each; they were all sown on 

 April 28, using at the rate of one bushel and a half of seed per acre. 



Spring Wheat — Test of Varieties. 



s 

 25 



Name of Variety. 



Date 



of 

 Ripen- 

 ing. 



1 Hiircn 



2|Wellman's Fife 



3 Blenheim 



4'Preston 



.5 Laurel 



a Colorado 



7 Captor 



S Red Fern.. 



9 White Russian .... 



10 VVeldon 



11 Red Fife 



12 Pringle's Champlain. 



13 Adiriral 



14 Dion's 



15 Crown 



IG Roumanian 



17 Stanley.. 



IS Harold 



19 Clyde 



L'O Plumper 



21 Monarch 



22 Beauty 



23 Crawford 



24 No. 19 (Australian) . 



25 Percy 



26 No. 9 (Australian) . . 



27 Byron 



2S Chester 



, lAug 



CO 



ci 



TJ . 



<4-, be 



o s 



3J S 



Xi ■« 



^ 



13 

 14 

 13 

 11 

 15 

 9 

 9 

 13 

 14 

 10 

 16 



107 

 108 

 107 

 105 

 109 

 103 

 103 

 107 

 108 

 104 

 110 



13 107 



11 

 Ih 

 12 

 17 



106 

 107 

 106 

 111 



10, 104 

 4 9S 



13' 107 

 7! 101 



Length 



of 

 Straw. 



111. 



43- 



45- 

 40- 

 42- 

 40- 

 40- 

 38- 

 40- 

 45- 

 37- 

 38- 

 38- 

 40- 

 40- 

 40- 

 43- 

 40- 

 33- 

 38- 

 37- 



15' 109 42- 



13 

 9 

 16 

 11 

 l(i 

 11 

 10 



107| 42- 



103 40- 



110 43- 



105 42- 



110 

 l')5 

 104 



43 



35- 



40- 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



—47 Stiff 

 -49 

 43 

 -45 

 50 

 -43 

 -41 

 -43 

 -49 

 -40 

 -42 

 -42 

 -45 

 -43 

 44 

 -47 

 43 

 35 

 -42 

 40 

 46 

 -46 

 43 

 •47 

 45 

 47 

 -40 

 -44 



Weak . 

 Stiff . . . 



Medium . 

 Stiff 



c3 



O 



■*^ 

 'oc 



a 



03 

 1-^ 



Weak , 

 Stiff.. 



In. 



3 —3^ 

 3i-4 

 2i- -3h 

 3"— 4 

 3 —4 

 2i-3i 

 3 —.3? 

 3 — 3| 

 3^—4 

 3 — 3f 

 3-3i 

 3 —4 

 2-^-3^ 

 3 —4 

 23-31 

 2-3i 

 3 -4 



2 — 2| 

 3-3i 

 2i-3i 



3 —4 

 3 -4 

 3 — 3| 

 3 — 3| 

 3 -3| 

 24-3^ 

 2i-3i 

 3 -3| 



Kind 



of 

 Head. 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



m h) 



Bearded . . 

 Beardless . 

 Bearded . . 



38 

 35 

 34 

 34 

 33 

 33 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 32 



M . |32 

 Bearded.. 132 



Beardless. 

 Bearded . . 

 Beardless . 

 Bearded . . 

 Beardless . 



Beardless . 

 Bearded . . 



Beardless . 

 Bearded. . 

 Beardless. 

 Bearded . . 

 Beardless . 



Bearded . . 

 Beardless . 



31 

 31 

 31 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 . 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 



40 

 20 

 40 



40 

 20 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 



20 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 20 



a: 

 60 



60f 



58 



OOi 



fiO| 



59 



61 



59i 



61 



60 



61 



59; 



61: 



01^ 



60| 



62^ 



59 



58i 



60" 



61 



58i 



59 



59 



59i 



60| 



59^ 



59 



Rusted. 



Slightly. 



Consideiably. 



Slightly. 



Considerablv. 



Slightly. 



Considerably. 



