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development in the Coastal Plain region. The soils on this farm 

 belong to the Cecil series and range in texture from a loam to a clay 

 loam. The depth of these soils runs from six to eight inches. They 

 are reddish-brown in color, well drained and fairly retentive of moist- 

 ure. Wherever found, these soils are well suited to the growth of 

 general crops, such as corn, wheat and oats, except in so far as 

 climatic conditions may be opposed. 



Table IV— RESULTS OF VARIETY TESTS OF WHEAT, 1901. 



EDGECOMBE FARM. 



Varieties of Wheat Tested. 



Red May 



Early Arcadian 



Purple Straw 



Budapest 



Allara (5075) 



Early Boant 



Red Chaff 



Canadian Hybrid. . 



Origora (5342) 



King's Early (5079) 



3 



- 2 



Orvi 



CD r- 



— = 

 — O 





15.00 



13.66 



11.66 



10.66 



10.00 



10.00 



9.00 



9.00 



6.66 



6.66 



S 



CD 



s 



o 



cd 

 ctj 



Q 



6—15 

 6-17 

 6—15 

 6—15 

 6—15 

 6— 5 

 6—12 

 6—17 

 6— 8 

 6—15 



05 



o 



.— - 



-a <o 

 o 



w 



X 3 



tf.S 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



On the. following pages are recorded the results of the variety 

 tests of wheat on the Iredell farm from 1904 to 1908, inclusive. 

 The tables give a brief description of each variety, showing whether 

 it is smooth or bearded ; the per cent of grain to straw ; the bushels 

 of grain and pounds of straw per acre ; and the rank of the varieties 

 according to the acre-yield in bushels of sixty pounds each. Table 

 No. V brings before us clearly the importance of testing and ascer- 

 taining the relative adaptability of the different varieties of wheat 

 to our soils. It is seen that Tuscan Island ranks first with 10.3 

 biishels, while Medeah and Early Genessee Giant rank seventeen 

 with only 2 bushels per acre. Table No. VI shows even greater 

 extremes the following year, with Medeah again making the lowest 

 yield. In 1900 the history of this variety is again repeated, and 



