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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



SPRINQ WHEAT — TEST OP VARIETIES — Concluded. 



Name of Variety. 



18 Cartier 



19 Hungarian 



20 Blenheim 



21 Preston 



22 Pride of Baropa 



23 Dufiferin 



24 Countess 



25 Dawn 



26 Kideau 



27 Crown. 



28 Bishop 



29 Goose 



80 Red Fife 



81 Pringle'a Champlain 



82 Progress 



33 Essex 



84 Ebert 



36 Stanley 



36 Angus 



37 Admiral 



38 Dawson 



39 Alpha 



40 Vernon 



41 Captor, Red Chaff 



42 Percy 



43 Fraser. 



44 Campbell's Wiiite Chaff".! 



45 Black Sea 



46 Jordan 



47 Golden Drop 



48 Ladoga 



49 Beauty 



50 Captor 



61 Beaudry , 



52 Herisson Bearded , 



53 Percy, White Chaff , 



54 Red Fern 



56 Dions 



66 Emporium , 



Proportion 

 Rusted. 



Considerably. 



SUghtly. 



II 

 Considerably. 

 Slightly. 

 Considerably. 



Slightly. 



Considerably. 



Badly. 



SUghtly. 



Considerably. 

 Slightly. 

 Considerably. 

 Slightly. 



Considerably. 



Badly. 



Considerably. 



Slight: 



Considerably. 



n 



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In the foregoing list there are included thirty-one of the new cross-bred sorts which 

 have been originated at the experimental farms. A list of the names and parentage of 

 fifteen of these was given in the annual report for 1896, a continuation of this list will be 

 found below : — 



16. Angus — Early Sonora Female with Red Fife Male. 



1 7. Dawson — Whit© Connell. 



18. Fraser — Alpha 



19. Crawford — Alpha.. . 



20. Jordan— Red Fife . . 



21. Laurel— Red Fife . . 



22. Plumper — Colorado. 



23. Blair — Colorado.. . 



24. Mason — Colorado. . . 



25. Cartier — Colorado. . 



26. Bishop — Ladoga. . . . 



27. Ebert^Gehun 



28. Harold— Gehun 



