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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



jiverage loss in \Yeight due to the removal of garlic was 2.12, 0.50. and 1.88 per 

 cent, I'espectively. Other results secured are shown in the following table: 



Results in experimental dryiuf] and cleaninfi of aarlicky wheat. 



Lot A was increased in value by 17 cts. per bushel, equivalent to 28.6 per cent ; 

 Lot B by 30 cts., or an increase in its value of 54.5 per cent; and Lot C by 24.5 

 cts., or 40.8 per cent. In none of the experiments was all the garlic removed, 

 but its quantity was reduced considerably more than was necessary to make the 

 wheat grade as No. 2 Red. The cost of removing the garlic was 5^, 2f, and 4| 

 cts. per bushel for Lots A, B, and C, respectively, as governed by the prices 

 current at the time. 



The origin of Rietti wheat, E. A. Noebs (Agr. Juiir. Cape Good Hope, 2S 

 {1906), No. 5, pp. 675-677). — The history of Rietti wheat is given and its com- 

 position compared with that of hard, medium hard, and soft wheats. 



Specimen pages of a pedigree register for cereal breeding purposes, 

 W. Dix (Mitt. Dent. Landic. GeselL, 21 {1906), No. 20, pp. 2i/-2 /.?,). —Samples 

 oi the register forms are given and their arrangement, value, and use described 

 in detail. 



References to recent work in plant breeding, C. Fruwirth {Jom: Landic. 

 li't {1906), No. 2, pp. 139-15S).— About 40 references to books, bulletins, and 

 articles treating of plant breeding are briefly given. 



The Swedish plant breeding work at Svalof, A. Ulander {Jour. Landw., 

 lyJf {1906), No. 2, pp. Iii5~12'i. pis. 6). — The methods of carrying on the work in 

 plant breeding at this institution are briefly described. The author points out 

 that the old so-called methodic selection did not give the results that were 

 expected, and improvement of large numbers of individuals at the same time, 

 tven with the best equipment, does not lead to fixation and never to new 

 varieties with good distinguishing characters. He believes that the improve- 

 ment of agricultural plants nuist be based solely upon the laws of transmission 

 and variation in the individual. The work nuist be conducted on a purely 

 scientific basis and only morphological characters be taken into account. He 

 is of the opinion that in this way the important and transmissible characters 

 (if a plant may be most easily found, and that it gives to the newly bred 

 varieties characters which are not influenced by climatic and soil conditions. 

 While this line of work can be satisfactorily conducted only in specially 

 eciuipped institutions, the efforts of the practical farmer and seedsman are to 

 be applied in maintaining the productivity and the purity of the new variety 

 after it leaves the institution. 



What benefit can the farmer derive from plant breeding, variety tests, 

 and seed growing? C. Fruwirth {Wie kann sich der Landwirt Pflanzen- 



