REPORT OF MR. JAMES MURRAY 



353 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Spring Wheat — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



1 White Fife 



2 Bishop 



3, "Registered "Red Fife.. 

 4, "Regenerated" Red Fife 



5 Marquis 



6|RedFife "H" 



7 i Preston 



8Riga 



9 Chelsea 



10 Early Red Fife 



11 Pringle's Cham plain 



12 Stanley 



13 Smith's Early Red Fife. . 



14 Huron 



c 



o . 



1 bD 



c8-S 



Q 



bo 

 O 



Aug. 



17 

 8 

 17 

 17 

 10 

 14 

 12 

 9 

 10 

 V2 

 12 

 12 

 10 

 13 



be c 



Oa 



113 

 104 

 113 

 113 

 106 

 110 

 108 

 105 

 106 

 108 

 108 

 108 

 106 

 109 



Ins. 



40 

 40 

 43 

 40 

 33 

 39 

 40 

 40 

 35 

 38 

 37 

 39 

 38 

 39 



Yield of 



Grain 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



45 

 44 

 44 

 44 

 42 

 40 

 39 

 39 

 38 

 33 

 37 

 36 

 36 

 29 



40 

 50 

 40 

 00 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 30 

 20 

 10 

 50 



Weight 



Iier 



measured 



bushel 



after 



clean ng. 



Lbs. 



63 4 



62 



63 



62 



63 



62 



62 3 



Gl 



62 . 



60 



62 



60 



61 



62 



Five strains of Eed Fife wheat are included in this table. The ' Registered ' Red 

 Fife was secured three years ago from a member of the Canadian Seed Growers' 

 Association and has been grown here since then with very good results. The average 

 yield for three years was 39 bushels 48 lbs. per acre, while the average of Red Fife 

 ' H ' for the same period was 40 bushels 46 lbs. 



Early Red Fife is a strain of Red Fife selected for earliness by the Dominion 

 Cerealist. It was grown on this Farm for the first time in 1909, when it yielded 34 

 bushels 17 lbs. per acre and ripened two days earlier than Red Fife ' H,' and yielded 

 2 bushels 10 lbs. less per acre. The only objection to this strain is that it is subject 

 to rust. It has been much worse affected with rust both years it has teen grown here 

 than any other variety. 



Smith's Early Red Fife is a selection of Red Fife made by Geo. A. Smith, Saska- 

 toon. It ripened four days earlier than Red Fife ' H ' but yielded 4 bushels 30 lbs. 

 less per acre. 



' Regenerated ' Red Fife was secured from the Garton Pedigree Seed Co., Win- 



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