REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Barley. 



341 



DIFFEEENT METHODS OF PEEPAEING LAISTD FOE SEEING WHEAT. 



As is usual on the experimental farm much better returns of wheat was obtained 

 after a leguminous crop than when following either wheat or oats. 



The size of the plots in this experiment was one-twentieth acre, the soil a clay 

 loam, and the date of sowing was April 24. 



Name of Variety. 



Wheat, Red Fife. 



Previous Crop. 



Summer fallow 



Soja Beans 



Horse Beans 



Pease 



Stubble, not plowed 



Wheat 



Oats 



o «* 



<£ 

 1-^ 



Inch's 



28 

 23 

 29 

 27 

 28 

 28 

 22 



O 



Stiff. 



^1 



Lbs 



58 

 58 

 58 

 56 



53 

 58 

 .55 



EXPEEIMENT WITH SPELTZ WHEAT. 



This variety of spring wheat is attracting some attention in western Canada at 

 present. It differs from the ordinary wheat of commerce in tliat its chaff is adherent 

 and cannot be separated from the kernel by the ordinary threshing machine. It is said 

 that machines are in use in Europe, capable of separating the chaff from the kernel, 

 but in this country both are ground together and the product used for cattle and pig 

 fed. 



The straw is finer than that from other wheat but its feeding value has not been 

 tested on the exi)erimental farm. 



The sample grown on the farm weighed about 40 pounds to the measured bushel, 

 but as the Speltz wheat was grown side by side with Eed Fife for comparison the 

 bushel has been estimated in both cases at 60 pounds. 



The size of the plot for this test was one-twentieth acre, the soil a sandy loam, 

 rammer-fallowed. The Eed Fife wheat was sown on April 28, and the Speltz on April 

 S6. 



