EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS 



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Xames of varieties. 



♦Dawson Golden Chaff. 



Gold Coin 



International, No. 6 



Jones' Longberry 



White Clausen 



Long Ainber 



Jones Square Head . . 



Harvest Queen 



Earlv Genesee Giant. 



Hybrid Beechwood 



Poole 



Harvest King 



Fultzo-Mediterranean 



« 



Russian 



Buda Pesth 



Fulcaster 



tMarshall's Triumph. 



Yield in 



1900, 

 per acre. 



t Average, 



1899 and 1900, 



per acre. 



32.7.3 

 30.75 

 29 29 

 27.. W 

 27.92 



24 17 

 32.25 

 29.54 

 .30.50 



26.25 

 32.33 

 2(5.42 



27.75 



28.00 

 29.66 

 19.42 

 22. 



32.64 

 31 .42 

 30.60 



26. 



21.10 



29.58 



28.95 

 25.. 59 

 23.72 



* Average of four plots. 



t Sown Oct. 5. 



t Yields in 1899 are found in Bulletin 181. 



In addition to the above varieties Early Arcadian, Earle's Velvet 

 Chaff, Plymouth Rock, Red Clauson, Rudy,"^ Currell, Winter Fife and a 

 new Russian variety were grown. The first three named made very 

 satisfactory growth, but the area was too small to give reliable figures 

 of yields for acre areas. A portion of the plots of the other varieties 

 was winter killed, though the Rudy, Red Clauson and Russian varieties 

 made growths on the higher portions of the plots that would compare 

 favorably with the best yielding varieties. The Winter Fife is a new 

 red bearded variety, donated by Northrup, King & Co., of Minneapolis, 

 Minn., but was received so late that a satisfactory crop was impossible. 



All the varieties in the list above, together with a few new varieties, 

 are being grown again this year. 



Twenty varieties are being tried to determine their relative ability 

 in resisting the attacks of the Hessian Fly. This experiment also 

 includes the question of the proper date of sowing, by sowing the seed 

 at intervals of ten days each from Sept. 1 to Oct. 21. The following 

 varieties of wheat are being used in this ex]>erimeiit: 



Hungarian, Russian No. 2,71)1, Buda Pesth, Russian, Dawson, Golden 

 Clialf, Gold Coin No. G, Poole, Jones' Longberry, Jones' Square Head, 

 White Clauson, Harvest Queen, Harvest King, Fultzo-Mediterranean, 

 Red Clauson, Hybird P>eechwood, Early Genesee Giant, Marshall's 

 Triumph, Rudy and Farmer's Trust. 



Thus far the Oct. 1 seeding is by far the best. The Sept. 1 seeding 

 made a fair growth last fall, but was practically all destroyed by the 

 Hessian Fly. The Sept. 11 seeding gives promise of but little more than 

 the Sept. i, while the Se])t. 21 seeding may be called one-third of a 

 normal crop. The later seedings, Oct. 11 and 21. escaped the fall 

 attack of the Hessian Fly, but did not get sunicient growth before winter 

 to give them the necessary vigor in the spring. 



There were four Enropcan varieties, one lliingnrian, one P.uda Pesth 

 and two Russian. These varieties seemed to resist the fall attack of 

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