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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL FARM, AGASSIZ, B.C. 



P. H MOORE, B.S.A., SUPERINTENDENT. 

 VARIETY TESTS OF GRAIN. 



Tlie plots for tlie variety tests of grain this season were on a piece of fall-plouglied 

 gras.s land, this being the most uniform piece of land obtainable. Although special 

 care was taken to have the land as uniform as possible, some of the results Avere very 

 uneven and, consequently, were not as comparable as they would have been if the plots 

 has been sown on manured and well-cultivated land. 



Taking the season as a whole, it was wet and cool and not at all favourable for 

 grain growing. In April there were 4-72 inches of rain; in May, 6-08 inches, whit-h 

 was very hard on the young grain; in June there were 7-33 inches, and in July (our 

 Itarvesting month) there were 3 -71 inches. In August, in the early part of Avhich 

 month the threshing was done, there were 2-71 inches, this being about the finest month 

 of l];C season, and it allowed us to get the grain threshed in probably a little better 

 shape than usual. All grain sown was treated wath formalin as a prevention against 

 smut, but, in spite of this, considerable smut appeared in the plots. 



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SPRING WHEAT. 



Twelve varieties of wheat were sown, but this year they were attacked worse than 

 ever by what appears to be ''wheat midge" (Diplosis frifki). Mr. R. C. Treherne, of 

 the Division of Entomology station here, made the following report from a thorough 

 examination of the plots : — 



Infestation op Wheat by AVheat Midge. 



The results from the standpoint of yield, of these plots are worthless, and are not 

 published. To a slight extent, this pest attacked the barky but not nearly to sucli an 

 extent as the wheat. 



