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one tiller. In the two and three tiller stools the heads were not 

 fully formed in the sheath while usually in the one tiller stools they 

 were. Some files were present but the extent of the injury could not 

 be determined at this time. Some rust had also appeared and done 

 more damage than in any other case. The field was examined for 

 the last time July 2, IDOT. The stand was poor, only a few of the 

 stools with two and three tillers developed more than one head. 

 The tillers with heads varied in height from 32 to 50 inches; the 

 heads were smaller than is usual for this wheat. The fly had affect- 

 ed at least five per cent, of the stalks. The seed was exactly the same 

 as that used in the three previous demonstrations, but the soil cul- 

 ture was poor, no stable manure was applied and all the fertility was 

 supposed to be furnished by means of commercial fertilizer. The 

 wheat was cut July 17. After thorough drying in the shock it was 

 stacked in the field and threshed early iii September, yielding 17 

 bushels per acre. 



Ninety-eight per cent, of the kernels of this wheat in the condition 

 in which it was sown were similar in shape and practically of the 

 same size. The color was the bright and clear color of red wheat 

 and the hardness such as to indicate a large percentage of gluten. 



Ten grains laid end to end measured two and three-fourth inches. 

 No dirt or weed seeds were in the samples. The grains were plump. 

 Few grains, not more than one per cent., were damaged and there 

 were no smuty or musty grains. , The bran was not cracked or 

 withered. A measured bushel weighed 68 pounds. 



M. J. SMITH. 



Mr. Smith's farm is situated in the new red sand formation and is 

 known by the United States soil survey as the Penna. loams. On 

 the sod of the field used for this demonstration ten tons of a mixture 

 of horse and cow manure were applied in the fall of 1904. This 

 manure was plowed down in the fall. In the summer of 1905 a crop 

 of corn was raised in this field. After the corn was harvested the 

 soil was well cultivated and sown with wheat in the fall of that year. 

 This wheat was harvested in 1906 and the field manured and the 

 manure plowed down the middle of July. It was harrowed four 

 times and rolled three times between plowing and the tin e of sow- 

 ing. Three hundred jjounds of undissolved raw bone per acre was 

 applied with the drill before sowing the wheat. The wheat, the 

 harvest king, was sown September 21, 1906, at the rate of one and 

 seven-eighth bushels to the acre, and with it 275 pounds of a fer- 

 tilizer containing two and a half per cent, ammonia, five per cent 

 potash and eight per cent, phosphoric acid. Soil culture very good 

 This field was examined November 9, 1906. At this time the wheat 

 varied in height from S to 10 inches. There had been some stooling, 

 but the tillers had not developed as much as might have been de- 

 sired. The field was again inspected April 13, 1907. At this time 

 the wheat w^as from 9 to 11 inches tall and the tillers had grown 

 nearly as tall as tlie original stalks, strong and sturdy. The field was 

 again inspected May 27. At this time the stand was as even as if 

 shorn off to make it even, and was nearly all 28 inches tall. Fully 

 half of the wheat had stooled and there was little if any difference 

 in the height of the tillers growing from stools having two or three 

 tillers and those having only one. The leaves on this variety of 



