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wheat are strong and large and have a dark green color. The heads 

 were all formed in the sbeath. No damage had been done by the tiy 

 up to this time. The held was examined the last time before cutting 

 the wheat July 1, 19U7. The straw was not as long as it might have 

 been, varying in height from 43 to 4G inches. There is little differ- 

 ence in the length of the straws of the stools that have two or three 

 tillers and those that have only one, neither is there an appreciable 

 difference in the size of the heads, nor in the grain in the heads. The 

 fiy had done but very little damage. This wheat was cut July 12, 

 was put in shocks in the field and housed in a barn and was threshed 

 August 8, and yielded 32 bushels to the acre field yield. 



The kernels in the wheat, as it was used for seed were approxi- 

 mately all the same shape and size, had a clear bright wheat color. 

 Ten average kernels when laid end to end measured two and three 

 fourth inches. There ^^'as no dirt or weed seeds in this wheat and 

 no smutty or musty grains; 99 per cent, of the grains ware plump. 

 The bran was not cracked, streaked or withered and therefore the 

 vitality will likely be good. A measured bushel of this wheat weigh- 

 ed 61 pounds. 



COL. J. A. STAHLE. 



Col. Stahle's soil is exactly the same as M. L. Smith's but the soil 

 treatment somewhat different. Col. Stable does not follow the four 

 years or three years or any definite rotation. The larger field under 

 observation was manured on the sod in the fall of 1904, and the 

 manure plowed down the following spring. A crop of corn was 

 raised on this field in the summer of 1905. After harvesting the 

 corn the field received another application of manure which was 

 plowed down and the field planted with potatoes in the spring of 

 1906. After the crop of early potatoes was harvested the field was 

 plowed and between plowing and sowing of wheat the field was 

 harrowed six times and dragged once or twice. The soil was in 

 elegant condition. The wheat, the Turkish Koumanian, a bearded 

 variety, was sown September 16, 1906, at the rate of two bushels 

 to the acre, with 200 pounds of a fertilizer containing 2 per cent, 

 nitrogen, 10 per cent, phosphoric acid and 8 per cent, potash. 



In another field under observation four crops of early corn were 

 raised in succession. This field was manured every year after the 

 corn was harvested and the manure plowed down and the soil well 

 cultivated. In the late summer of 1906 the field was again manured 

 and the manure plowed down, and the field sown with wheat at the 

 same rate of the same variety of wheat per acre; and the same 

 quantity of a fertilizer of the same composition as the one already 

 given. This wheat was not examined until July 6, 1907. At this 

 time the wheat was beginning to ripen. The wheat had stooled well 

 having mostly two tillers to the stool. The length of the straws of 

 the one tiller and the two tiller stools varied very little, neither did 

 the size of the heads vary. The length of the straw varied from 53 

 to 62 inches on the field in which potatoes were raised and from 45 

 to 52 inches on the field where corn was raised four years in suc- 

 cession. This wheat was cut from the 17th to the 20th of July and 

 shocked on the field and housed in a barn and threshed the middle 

 of August and yielded 52 bushels to the acre field yield, while that 

 in the other field yielded 32 bushels to the aore field yield. About 



