REPORT OF MR. W. H. FAIRFIELD 449 



l.JCNAL PAPER No. 16 



Spring Wiie.t — Rates of Seed per Acre (non-irrigated). 



The most interesting point shown by the table is the fact that, notwithstanding 

 the very dry season, the light seedings did not yield better than the heavier ones, 

 indicating that the results expressed in the average yield for the three years are pro- 

 bably reliable. 



SOWING WINTER WHEAT IN THE SPRING. 



A great many letters are received asking what the result would be if winter wheat 

 were sown in the spring. Some farmers even maintain that it is safe to reseed winter 

 wheat fields that have been killed out more or less during the winter, with winter 

 wheat in the spring. 



When winter wheat is sown in the spring, its inclination is to stool cut very 

 freely and to be slow about shooting for head, so that, even when a good crop is pro- 

 duced, it is much later than spring wheat and is almost certain to be frosted. How- 

 ever, on account of the idea that appears to be more or less prevalent among certain 

 farmers that such a practice is feasible, the following experiment was carried out. 

 On March 24, two plots of one-sixtieth acre each were sown on summer-fallowed land, 

 with the following results : — 



Winter Wheat — Sown in Spring. 



Variety. 



Kharkov (winter wheat) 

 Red Fife (spiing wheat). 



Difference in time of maturing . . .". 1(5 days 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



15 

 17 



In a normal year, when the maturing of the grain is not hastened by drought, it can 

 readily be seen that the great difference in the time it takes the winter wheat, as com- 

 pared to a spring variety, to ripen would make it very unsafe to sow the former as 

 spring wheat. 



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