REPORT OF MR. JAMES MURRAY 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Spring Wheat — Field Lots. 



AVERAGE AND TOTAL YIELDS. 



Variety. 



White Fife 



Preston 



Early Red Fife. 

 Red Fife "H". 



Marquis. 



Total 



Soil preparation. 



Summerf allow. 



Corn stubble 



Second crop after corn 

 Fall ploughed stubble . 



Corn stubble 



Backsetting 



Total 

 Yield. 



Bush. 



238 

 128 

 108 

 204 

 120 

 168 

 105 

 94i 



1,165* 



Weight per 



measured 



bushel 



after 



cleaning. 



Lbs. 



617 



58-5 



605 



62 



62 



62 



A considerable quantity of this wheat was sent to the Central Experimental 

 Farm, to be distributed in small samples throughout the country. The balance, except 

 that required for seed, was sold in lots of from two to five bushels to farmers in 

 Manitoba. 



STANDARD AND COMMERCIAL GRADES OF WHEAT. 



An experiment has now been under vvay for three years to determine the com- 

 parative value for seed of the various standard and commercial grades of wheat. 



Samples of each of the grades were secured from the Chief Inspector of Grain at 

 Winnipeg, and these were sown under uniform conditions of soil on plots of one 

 twentieth of an acre, and the yields determined. 



The results for the three years have been reduced to an average and are presented 

 in the following table. 



It will be noted that there is an almost steady decrease in yield from No. 1 Hard 

 to Feed. No. 2 Northern is the only exception to this rule. This grade is always 

 sound and fairly plump and it may be graded down merely on account of colour. 



The difference in yield per acre between No. 1 Hard and Feed is 9 bushels 46 lbs. 

 and the difference in weight per bushel one pound. If there is so great a difference 



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