REPORT OF MR. 8. A. BEDFORD 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



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Name of Variety. 



Spelts: Wheat 



Ked Fife Wheat 



American Beauty Oats 

 Mensury Barley 



Weight of 



Grain 

 per Acre. 



Lbs. 



3,080 

 1,720 

 2,320 

 2,320 



SPELTZ— THICK AND THIN SOWING. 



The unusual size and formation of the berry of speltz causes much uncertainty 

 regarding the most suitable manner of setting the grain drill. The accompanying 

 table gives the result of setting the Massey-Harris Shoe Drill, one bushel, one and 

 a half bushels, and one and three-quarter bushels per acre. 



The size of the plots was one-twentieth acre, and the soil >was a sandy loam, which 

 had been summer-fallowed. 



Speltz Wheat — Thick and Thin Sowing. 



Summer-fallowed vs. Unploughed Stubble for Speltz. 



The small difference of yield in favour of the summer-fallow is no* doubt largelj 

 attributable to the abundance of rain during the growing season. The test was made 

 on plots of one-twentieth acre. The soil was a clay loam. 



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