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sort, 123 fold, and the average from 326 plants was 610 fold. From the third grade of 

 plants, which usually included more or less weakly ones, the highest yield was 852 

 from the Fern wheat, and the lowest from the Grreek Summer, from Russia, 124 fold, the 

 average of 3,142 plants being 406 fold. 



The following were among the varieties of wheat which gave the largest yield : — 



Varieties. 



Ladoga 



Kubanka 



Victoria de Mars 



Bearded Summer 



Saxonl^a 



Bearded Mardi 



Pringle's Cliamplain 



WliiteFife 



Fern 



Herison's Beardless 



The average of three plots of Red Fife gave. 



Yield op 



Single Selected 



Plants. 



Yield of 



3 OR 4 Selected 



Plants. 



1,292 

 1,254 

 1,245 

 1,224 

 1,107 

 1,079 

 1,045 

 1,034 

 1,029 

 1,020 

 905 



688 



1,019 



769 



1,149 



861 



833 



1,400 



842 



993 



967 



859 



Average Yield 



OF Unselected 



Plants. 



674 



830 

 467 

 698 

 551 

 426 

 668 

 634 

 852 

 534 

 597 



Barley. 



The highest yield of barley obtained from among the first selected plants was that of 

 the Imperial Improved American, which gave 1,892 fold. This, however, is a six-rowed 

 barley of light weight and inferior quality. The heaviest yielders among the six-rowed 

 barleys were as follows : — 



Varieties. 



Imperial Improved American 



Six-rowed wheat barlej' 



Small blue naked 



Six-rowed from Northwest Territories 



Spring 



Rennie's Improved six-rowed 



Yield op 



Single Selected 



Plants. 



1,892 

 1,705 

 1,326 

 1,309 

 1,075 

 980 



Yield of 



3 or 4.selkctkd 



Plants . 



1,365 

 1,131 

 614 

 597 

 840 

 895 



Average Yield 



OF Unselected 



Plants. 



806 

 745 

 578 

 628 

 637 

 592 



The largest yield among the two-rowed sorts was that of the Danish Chevalier, 

 which produced 1,203 fold. The smallest yield of barley from the plants of the first 

 selection was 125 fold. In the second selection of 3 or 4 plants, the largest yield among 



