LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Sir — I submit herewith a manuscript discussing various phases of 

 the production of wheat and oats in North Carolina together with 

 the results of our variety work on the test farms during the past sea- 

 son. It is our plan to revise and embody in this bulletin, each year, not 

 only the results of the work done in North Carolina but to include the 

 latest and most approved methods of wheat and oat culture, in brief 

 outline, that have been developed in other parts of the United States. 

 This bulletin should thus relieve wheat growers of a great deal of 

 useless reading trying to get at the leading facts concerning the growth 

 of these crops. The details of the variety work were carried out very 

 efficiently on the test Farms by Messrs. Meacham and Collett and much 

 credit is due them for the results achieved. I recommend that this 

 manuscript be published as a supplement to the September bulletin of 

 this Department. Very respectfully, 



J. L. Burgess, 

 To Hon. W. A. Graham, Agronomist. 



Commissioner of Agriculture. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



WHEAT 



PAGE 



Introduction 4 



Historical Note 4 



Statistics 5 



Cultivation 6 



Fertilization 7 



Adaptation 8 



Composition 9 



Variety Tests 11 



Comments on Variety Tests 12 



Description of Varieties 15 



OATS 



Historical Note 20 



Cultivation 20 



Fertilization 21 



Varieties 21 



Description of Varieties 21 



Comment on Varieties Tested 21 



Sources of Seed 24 



