REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MACEA7. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Wheat— Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Red Fife 



Stanley 



Dion's 



Beaudry 



Huron 



Pringle's Charapl'in 



Dufferin 



Goose 



Hungarian 



Alpha 



Colorado 



Blenheim 



Percy 



Captor 



Wellman'sFife . 



Beauty 



Progress 



Crown 



Monarch 



Preston 



Vernon 



White Russian . 



Rideau 



Rio Grande 



Countess 



Ladoga ... 



Roumanian . . 



Red Fern 



Dawn 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Sept. 4. 



4. 



1. 

 „ 12. 



8. 

 M 17. 



3. 



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4. 

 ., 17. 

 M 12. 

 ,, 12. 

 „ 12. 

 ,. 13. 



3. 



n 12. 



„ 12. 



M 17. 



„ 17. 



„ 12. 



„ 12. 

 4. 



M 17. 



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„ 12. 



M 12. 



M 17. 



" 17 



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Character 



of 



Straw. 



144 

 144 

 141 

 152 

 148 

 157 

 143 

 14 i 

 144 

 157 

 152 

 152 

 152 

 153 

 143 

 152 

 152 

 157 

 157 

 152 

 152 

 144 

 157 

 157 

 152 

 152 

 157 

 157 

 157 



31 

 34 

 41 

 41 

 39 

 36 

 42 

 38 

 30 

 54 

 41 

 47 

 37 

 35 

 34 

 38 

 37 

 32 

 36 

 37 

 39 

 31 

 26 

 39 

 36 

 40 

 39 

 44 

 33 



Yield 

 per acre. 



Bus. Lbs. Lbs 



a) 

 bo 



30 

 28 

 25 

 25 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 17 

 17 

 16 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 13 

 12 

 12 

 11 

 11 

 11 



20 

 40 

 40 



40 

 40 



20 

 20 



40 



46 



20 

 40 

 20 

 20 



40 

 20 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 20 



62 

 61 



57i 

 60" 

 60 



60' 



61 



60| 



56 



51i 



52| 



55i 



62" 



56 



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"54^ 

 47i 

 62i 



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Remarks. 



Good sample. 



Frozen. 

 Good sample. 

 Frozen. 

 Good sample. 



Badly frozen. 



11 



11 

 Frozen. 

 Good sample. 



M 



11 



Badly frozen. 



Good sample. 



11 

 Badly frozen. 



frost. 



Twenty other varieties included in this test were a complete failure owing to winds, dry weather and 



TEST OF VARIETIES IN FIELDS OF i TO 10 ACRES. 



As a considerable area of Brome and Native sod, broken and back-set, in 1899, 

 was available for this year's crop, the greater part of the larger lots of spring wheat 

 were sown on this land. 



The sod, in all cases, had been broken 2 inches deep in May and June, and back- 

 set 5 inches deep before harvest. After harvest the surface was made as fine as 

 possible by repeated strokes of the disc-harrow. 



As a comparative test, Eed Fife wheat was sown on both Brome and Native sod. 

 The grain on Brome sod appeared to stand the drought much better than that on 

 Native sod, and produced a considerably larger crop of wheat. The soil in all cases 

 was a clay loam. 



