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EX PERU/ EN TA L FA BMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



Spring Wheat — Test of Varieties — Con. 



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Name of Variety. 



New Zealand. . . , 

 Hazlett's Seizure. 



Rosedale 



Buckbee's Illinois 



Salines. 



Anierican Beauty . 

 Iniijroved Ligi.wo 

 White Schonen. . . 



Early Maine 



Milford 



Golden Tartarian. 

 White Ru.s.sian . . . 

 Early Dawson . . . 



Bavarian 



Cream Egyptian. . 



PcnsG 



White Giant. ..!. 



Miller 



Early Gothland. . . 

 Golden Beauty . . . 

 Early Archani,'el . . 

 Salzer's Big Four. 



Wallis 



Joanette 



Russell 



Brandon 



Bonanza 



King 



Sensation 



Wide Awake. . . . 



Newmarket 



O.xford 



Danish Island . . . . 



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In. 



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EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Forty-five varieties of barley were tested, eighteen of which were two-roweJ sorts 

 and twenty-seven were six-rowed. They were all on sandy loam of fairly uniform 

 character; the size of the plots was one-fortieth of an acre, and they were all sown on 

 April 20 and 21. The seed for these plots had been got from heads selected before the 

 crop was harvested in 1809. Four plots of two-rowed and six of six-rowed sorts were 

 sown alongside, with seed taken from the general crop after the plots wei'e threshed. 

 This was prepared as usual by screening, reserving only the plump grain for seed. 

 While the results are not uniform, the advantage in most instances is decidedly in 

 favour of the seed from the selected heads. 



There was no rust or smut on any of the plots in the test of varieties. 



