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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



Field Plots op Spring Wheat. 

 All sown on summer-fallow, soil, clay loam. 



Name of Variety. 



Preston 



Advance 



White Connell 



Ladoga 



Monarch 



White Fife.... 



Red Fife 



Stanley 



Percy 



Size 



of 



Plot. 



Acres. 



5 

 1 

 2 



1 



1 



2| 



3 



3 



3 



Date 



of 



Sowing. 



April 10. 

 „ 10. 

 M 12. 

 M 12. 



6. 



6. 



6. 



C. 



G. 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Aug. 



8. 

 10. 

 15. 

 14. 

 12. 

 14. 

 15. 

 10. 

 11. 



Yield 



per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs... 



26 

 17 

 30 

 20 

 42 

 40 

 45 

 34 

 38 



24 

 33 



30 

 30 

 21 

 50 

 40 

 40 



SELECTED AND UJSTSELECTED SEEDS. 



During the harvest season of 1899 the largest heads were selected from the standing 

 grain of some of the uniform tests plots of wheat and barley; these heads were threshed 

 out and the grain sown for a comparison with unselected grain from the same plot. 



The accompanying tables give the result. Owing to xmexpected loss in cleaning 

 only one-fortieth acre plots of the selected wheat were sown. The barley plots were all 

 one-twentieth acre each. The soil was a sandy loam, summer-fallowed. The plot* 

 of wheat were sown on April 18 and 19, and those of the barley on May 17 and 18. 



SPRING Whi AT. 



Name of Variety. 



White Fife, selected 



„ M unselected. . 



Wellman's Fife, selected 



,1 M unselect'd 



Red Fife, selected 



II II unselected 



Preston, selected 



II unselected 



Admiral, selected 



M vmselected 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Aug. 22. 



„ 20. 



I. 22. 



I. 20. 



I, 22. 



I. 21. 



1. 19. 



I, 18. 



„ 19. 



I. 20. 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



fS 



25 

 22 

 22 

 24 

 19 

 21 

 18 

 17 

 15 

 19 



-a 



30 

 40 

 20 



20 

 40 



20 

 40 







Lbs. 



56 



57 



57 



57i 



57 



57 



55 



58 



5i 

 57 



