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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



did not appear to injure the wheat plants and the crop was a very even one and the 

 several experiments with wheat very satisfactory. 



As usual Red and White Fife and White Connell are near the head of the list for 

 productiveness and every eflfort is being made on this faim to improve the quality and 

 productiveness of these excellent varieties. 



Velvet Chaff, generally known here as Blue Stem, is being highly recommended by 

 many farmers in this country, but we have found it no more productive than Red Fife 

 and generally about five days later than that variety, an obvious disadvantage in this 

 climate. 



In addition to the varietal test of wheat will be found the following experiments 

 in connection with wheat growing ; different ways of summer-fallowing, preventatives of 

 drifting soil, wheat on stubble and fall and spring ploughed land, preventatives of smut 

 in wheat, sowing at different dates, (tc. 



The varietal test included thirty -nine varieties all were sown on 26 April, on black 

 sandy loam. The size of the plots was one- tenth of an acre each and there was no injury 

 from rust in any case. 



Wheat — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



White Fife. 



White Russian 



Red Fife 



Golden Drop 



Monarch 



Crown 



White Connell 



Wellman's Fife 



Blenheim 



Velvet Chaff or Blue Stem 



Vernon 



Emporium 



Prinp^le's Champlain 



Percy 



Admiral . 



Advance 



Hungarian 



Alpha 



Beaudry 



Red Fern 



Campbell's White Chaff, 



Colorado 



Rio Grande 



Preston 



Goose 



Dion'a 



Rideau 



Old Red River 



Dawn 



Herrisoii Bearded 



Dufferin 



Countess 



Ladoga 



Black Sea 



Progress 



Captor 



Stanley 



Beauty 



Huron 



C3 

 u 

 ■*^ 

 CO 



CM 

 O 



J= 



bo 



a 



1-5 



In. 



42 

 36 

 30 

 32 

 41 

 41 

 »7 

 34 

 37 

 42 

 29 

 36 

 33 

 41 

 38 

 36 

 33 

 36 

 33 

 34 

 32 

 40 

 32 

 49 

 42 

 33 

 33 

 35 

 26 

 27 

 33 

 34 

 36 

 33 

 35 

 38 

 33 

 33 

 35 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Stiff.. 



II 



II 



II 



II 



II • 



tl • 



II • 



II 



II 



II • 



II • 



II . 



It . 



tl • 



II 



tl 



II 



II • 



II > 



II 



II 



II 



Weak 

 Stiff.. 



-a 



cS 



o 



In. 



34 



3 



3i 



3 



3 



3i 



3 



3i 



3 



3 



3i 



3| 



4 



2i 



3 



2 



3 



3i 



3| 



3| 



3 



2i 



2| 



2i 



3 



2il> 



l" 



3 



3 



3 



3 



3 



3 



3 



3 



3 



Kind 

 of Head. 



Beardless . 



Bearded . . 

 Beardless , 



It 

 Bearded . . 

 Beardless . 

 Bearded . . 



Beardless. 



tl 

 Bearded , . 



It 

 Beardless . 

 Bearded . 



It 

 Beardless . 

 Bearded . . 



Beardless . 



Bearded . . 



It 

 Beardless. 

 Bearded . . 



It 

 Beardless . 



Bearded . 



Weight 



of 

 Straw. 



Lbs. 



3,570 

 3,370 

 3,080 

 2,700 

 3,310 

 2,870 

 3,190 

 2,450 

 3,110 

 3,370 

 2,730 

 3,490 

 2,790 

 2,610 

 2,870 

 2,790 

 2,640 

 2,370 

 2,670 

 2,900 

 2,640 

 2,690 

 2,430 

 3,120 

 2,710 

 3,470 

 2,190 

 1,890 

 2,740 

 2,370 

 2,170 

 2,540 

 2,690 

 3,240 

 2,570 

 4,390 

 2,900 

 1,800 

 2.060 



« 

 u 



be 



'Z 



> 



Lbs. 



61 



62 



61 



62 



61 



59^ 



02 



61 



60 



60 



02 



61 



61 



62 



01 



60 



62 



60i 



62 



61 



61i 



61 



61 



61i 



62i 



61 



61 



62i 



63 



60i 



6l| 



59 



59i 



62 



61 



61 



59 



62 



