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grinding with spring wheat from the northwest, and sometimes bringing" 

 an advance over the market price for that purpose. 



The results of the first year's distribution by the Michigan experiment 

 station were so satisfactory that in nearly all cases so far as known the 

 wheat grown was used for seed. About 400 bushels grown on the college 

 farm were distributed by the station in the fall of 1896, the amount pro- 

 duced being insufficient to supply the demand. 



The si>ecial merits of this variety, aside from the color and quality of 

 the grain, are its hardiness and stiffness of straw, adapting it to cultiva- 

 tion on low, black land where many varieties winterkill and where the 

 White Clauson is inclined to lodge and fail to properly fill. On such land, 

 which occurs in large quantities on the margins of reclaimed swamps in 

 this State, the Dawson's Golden Chaff has produced most excellent crops 

 of wheat, though of a somewhat darker color and not always as well filled 

 as when grown on upland. 



In 1895 eight well known varieties of wheat were grown in quarter acre 

 plots on pure muck land upon the college farm. The results are published 

 on another page and show the Golden Chaff and White Clauson to have 

 given much better results than any of the others, the figures as between 

 these two varieties being somewhat in favor of the Golden Chaff. The 

 following year the same experiment was repeated with ten varieties and 

 again Golden Chaff and White Clauson stood the best, giving practically 

 equal yields. Of course, it is understood that pure muck is unsuitable for 

 the growing of wheat, and this test was therefore exceptionally severe, 

 but the results of these two seasons' trial on muck tend strongly it is 

 believed to illustrate the hardiness of these two varieties and their 

 superiority over some of our other varieties for low land. This fact, in 

 the case of the Golden Chaff, is the more worthy of note because it may 

 develop upon further trial that upon some of our dryer and less fertile 

 uplands there are other kinds that will prove more profitable. At least it 

 is found in certain portions of Canada where this variety has become well 

 known, that the opinion prevails among some farmers that the "Dawson," 

 as it is there called, requires "good land," and that on farms that have 

 been run for a series of years there are other varieties that give a larger 

 yield. The writer visited, in the dry season of 1895, during the threshing 

 period, the neighborhood of the old Dawson farm in Canada where this 

 variety originated and was there informed that it was not yielding as well 

 as some other kinds in that locality that season. The soil of this region is 

 hilly, often gravelly, and apparently more than ordinarily subject to 

 drouth. In other portions of the province the reports heard were nearly 

 always very favorable to this variety. 



BUDA PESTH. 



' Plant of moderate vigor and hardiness, ripening early; straw rather 

 short and slender; heads rather small, bearded, well filled, threshing 

 easily; grain hard, dark dull red, of good length and size. 



This variety was introduced into this country from Buda Pesth, Hun- 

 gary, by Mr. p. G. A. Voigt, a miller of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Voigt 

 had been to Europe for the purpose of learning why the millers of Vienna 

 and Buda Pesth were able to secure a higher price for their flour in the 

 London market than could be obtained for American flour. He -became 



