10 Jan., 1918.] Field Day , Long ere,nong College. 



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The section wliicli awakened 

 the greatest interest among the 

 farmers was the selection and 

 crossbred section. 



Mr. Eichardson congratulated 

 the _ Horsham Agricultural 

 Society on its progressive work in 

 establishing wheat selection com- 

 petitions for farmers. There 

 were ten entries this year, and it 

 was hoped that the inauguration 

 of these wheat selection competi- 

 tions would lead to a much 

 greater interest in the value of 

 selection as a means of improving 

 the yielding capacity of our 

 wheats. In the selection and 

 crossbred plots were seen a num- 

 ber of new crossbreds undergoing 

 trial preparatory to their cultiva- 

 tion on large plots. They were 

 grown side by side with such 

 favorites as Federation, Yandilla 

 King, Dart's Imperial. In these 

 plots, selected barleys — Oregon, 

 Squarehead, Shorthead, Cape, 

 Pryor, Gisborne, and Kinver. 

 Pryor was decidedly the best of 

 the two-rowed malting types, 

 being remarkably early, with 

 plump grain, and remarkably 

 thin in the skin. Of the six- 

 rowed Cape types, Oregon showed 

 out to advantage. These barleys 

 gave promise of heavy yields, but 

 in places, owing to weakness of 

 straw, they were lodging. It was 

 pointed out that this could be 

 partly corrected by later sowing 

 and the choosing of types suited 

 to resist lodging. Considerable 

 interest was manifested in a 

 natural cross between two-rowed 

 bearded barley and six-rowed 

 skinless. The crossbred type 

 possessed two rows of grain like 

 the pollen parent, and was bald 

 like the OAmle parent. 



The long rows of crossbreds 

 undergoing fixation preparatory 

 to trial in field plots created the 



