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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



TEST OP DIFFERENT VARIETIES SOWN SAME DATE, ONE-TENTH ACRE EACH. 



To test the question of earliness as well as yield, 35 varieties of wheat were 

 sown on the same day, on as uniform a piece of ground as possible. The land had 

 been fallowed the year previous, receiving one ploughing and several surface cul- 

 tivations. The soil being rather lighter than the average, all the varieties suffered 

 a good deal from hot wind on August 6th. Twelve of the varieties were cross-bred 

 wheats and like the older sorts were injured, which caused the grain to be small and 

 shrunken. 



In earliness, four of the cross-bred sorts, Beta, Albert, Abundance and Ottawa, 

 — crosses between Eed Fife and Ladoga — Gehun, an Indian variety, and Ladoga were 

 first. 



In yield Gehun, a wheat received several years ago from India gave the highest, 

 closely followed by one of the cross-bred sorts and four of the older kinds. Gehun 

 was also the best sample. 



Following are the varieties tested, date sown, date of heading, &c., &c. 



TESTS OP VARIETIES OP WHEAT, ALL SOWN SAME DAY, ONE-TENTH ACRE EACH. 



Name 



of 



Variety. 



Red Fife 



Wellman's Fife 



White Fife 



Campbell's W. Chafif 



White Connell 



Campbell's Triumph 



White Russian 



Hungarian Mountain 



Great Western 



Hueston's 



Ladoga , 



Red Fern 



Pringle's Champlain ...... 



Rio Grande 



Colorado 



Azima, Russian 



Black Sea 



Herisson Bearded 



Prince No. 1, cross-bred. . . 



do 2, do 



Advance do 



Carleton do 



Crown do 



Preston do 



Beta do 



Albert do 



Abundance, cross-bred 



Ottawa do 



Stanley do 



Alpha do 



Golden Drop 



Old Red River 



Red Fife (from Saskatoon) 



Gehun 



Australian 



•Tohnston's 



Sown. 



May 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



3. 



do 3. 



do 3. 



do 3. 



do 3. 



do 3. 



Ripe. 



Aug 25. 



do 27. 



do 27. 



do 26. 



do 26. 



do 24. 



do 22. 



do 23. 



do 27. 



do 26. 



do 18. 



do 23. 



do 23. 



do 24. 



do 22. 



do 26. 



do 23- 



do 27. 



do 20. 



do 20. 



do 21. 



do 21. 



do 26. 



do 21. 



do 18. 



do 18. 



do 18. 



do 18. 



do 21. 



do 22. 



do 25. 



do 26. 



do 27. 



do 18. 



do 26. 



do 26. 



0) 



Height. 



Days. 



115 

 117 

 117 

 116 

 116 

 114 

 112 

 113 

 117 

 116 

 108 

 113 

 113 

 114 

 112 

 116 

 113 

 117 

 110 

 110 

 111 

 111 

 116 

 111 

 108 

 108 

 108 

 108 

 111 

 112 

 115 

 116 

 117 

 108 

 116 

 116 



Ft. in. 



4 

 4 

 4 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 5 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 4 

 4 



9 



,a 

 u 



bo 



Lbs. 



59i 



60" 



60 



60i 



59^ 



m\ 



56| 



6l| 



6H 



57 



60 



59 



Ul\ 



60^ 



62" 



57* 



61 



56i 



57i 



ml 



56" 



60^ 



58 



56i 



56| 



56" 



57 



59i 



60| 



60* 



60| 



60,L 



64| 



59i 



60 



