REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



FALL WHEAT — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



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Name of Variety. 



Gold Coin 



Dawson 's G olden Chaff 

 Early Red Clawson . . 



Reliable 



Jones' Winter Fife. , . 



BudaPesth 



Imperial Amber 



Golden Cross 



Surprise 



Red Velvet Chaff.... 



Egyptian Amber 



American Bronze 



Pride of Illinois 



Velvet Chaff 



Bonnell 



Poole 



Treadwell 



Tasmania Red 



Turkey Red 



Long Berry Red 



Dawson's GoldenChmff 

 Surprise 



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300 

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Length 

 of 



Straw. 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Length 



of 

 Head. 



Kind 



of 

 Head. 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



m 



Beardless. 52 



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Bearded.. 147 



Beardless. 1 45 



44 



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30 



Bearded. 



Beardless . 



ii 

 Bearded. . 

 Beardless . 



Bearded. 

 Beardless . 

 ii . 

 Bearded . . 



Beardless. 



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 35 

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15 

 30 

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 12 

 50 



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 35 

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 33 



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Rusted. 



Slightly. 



No rust. 



Slightly. 

 No rust. 

 Slightly. 



No rust. 



Slightly. 

 No rust. 



*Both these varieties were sown October 1st. 

 10th produced larger crops. 



It will be seen that the same varieties sown September 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING WHEAT. 



One hundred and seventeen varieties of spring wheat were included in the trial 

 plots in 1901. The soil was a mixed clay and sandy loam, in some parts the clay pre- 

 dominated, in others it was more sandy. The previous crop was field roots. The land 

 received a dressing of fresh barn-yard manure, of about twelve tons per acre, during 

 the winter of 1899-1900 which was put en the frozen ground in small heaps of about 

 one-third of a cart load each and spread and ploughed under in the spring. No ma- 

 nure has been applied since. In the autumn of 1900 the roots were gathered, the land 

 was ploughed about seven inches deep, and left in that condition until the following 

 spring when it was cultivated twice with a two-horse cultivator and harrowed twice 

 with the smoothing harrow before the wheat was sown. 



The size of the plots was one-fortieth of an acre each, and they were all sown at 

 the rate of one bushel and a half of seed per acre. 



