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Maturity of Winter Wheat for Seed Purposes. Seed taken 

 from wheat which was allowed to become very ripe before it was cut 

 produced a greater yield of both grain and straw and a heavier weight 

 of grain per measured bushel than that oroduced from wheat which 

 was cut at any one of four earlier stages of maturity, according to the 

 average results of fourteen separate tests. 



Selection of Seed. Selections of seed made from two varieties 

 of winter wheat and tested for six years produced average annual re- 

 sults in bushels of grain per acre, tons of straw per acre, and pounds 

 per measured bushel as follows : Large plump seed, 46.9 bushels, 2,6 

 tons, and 59.4 pounds; Small plump seed — 40.4 bushels, 2.2 tons, and 

 59.2 pounds; Shrunken seed— 39.1 bushels, 2.1 tons, and 59.1 pounds; 

 and Broken seed— 9.3 bushels, .6 tons, and 54.2 pounds, respectively. 

 Quality of Winter Wheat to Sow. The average yield,, less 

 the amount of seed used, from sowing one bushel, one and one-half 

 bushels, and two bushels of each of two varieties of winter wheat per 

 acre in each of six years, have been 39.7 bushels^ 42.3 bushels, and 

 42 4 bushels per acre, respectively. 



Southern and Northern Grown Winter Wheat Seed. Seed 

 wheat grown a thousand miles south of Guelph gave practically the 

 same results as Ontario grown seed in the average experiments of two 

 years. 



Dates of Sowing Winter Wheat. Winter wheat sovs^n at the 

 College during the first ten days of September in each of nine years 

 has yielded 5.2 bushels per acre more than that sown from the i6th 

 to the 20th of September. 



Methods of Sowing Winter Wheat. The average results of 

 sixteen experiments, covering a period of eight years, show that on 

 well cultivated land winter wheat which was drilled in with a machme, 

 and that which was sown broadcast by hand, gave practically the same 

 yields of grain per acre. 



Green Manuring for Winter Wheat. Land on which field peas 

 were used as a green manure yielded 6.5 bushels of wheat per acre 

 more than land on which buckwheat was used as a green manure, and 

 2.3 bushels per acre more than land which was worked as a bare fallow, 

 in the average of eight separate tests. 



Treatment of Winter Wheat for Smut. In each of five years, 

 experiments have been conducted in treating winter wheat in different 

 ways to kill the stinking smut, and the results have been very satisfactory. 

 In the autumn of 1903, seven different treatments were made with 

 each of two varieties of wheat. In the crop of the present year, the 

 wheat produced from treated seed had no smut, and that from un- 

 treated seed had 3.6 per cent, of smutted heads. The treatment which 

 proved very simple, cheap and effective was the immersion of the seed 

 wheat for twenty minutes in a solution made by adding one pint of 

 formaldehyde (formalin) to forty-two gallons of water. The past year 

 was the first time that we used the formalin treatment as a part of this 



