_ New York Acricutrura, Expertwent Station. 369 
VARIETY TEST OF WHEAT. 
This trial was made on plats E 1-14, which had been two years 
in straw crops. They had been plowed alike, but harrowed a 
different number of times both years. The first was with oats 
reported by Mr. Goff.* 
Bi The second crop was with Clawson wheat, which proved to be 
: nearly a failure. Report of it has not been published. The yields 
i stood in no direct relation to the times of cultivation, however, 
and No. 4, which had at one time been a “weed” plat, and which 
yielded the least crop of oats, produced a greater weight of cleaned 
grain than any other plat save No. 14, not cultivated after plowing, 
2 except the action of the drill hoes on the furrows. The cultiva- 
__ tion before sowing was the same for wheat as it had been for oats, 
i and the same for each individual plat. Nos. 1 and 14 were not 
_ harrowed at all, Nos. 2 and 13 were harrowed twice each, and each 
__ harrowed six times each. A ditch was dug diagonally across some 
x of these plats in the fall after the wheat had come up, which 
materially interfered with the wheat on the middle ones. There 
was, however, a marked difference in the time of ripening on 
different plats. The grain ripened earliest on No. 4, followed 
closely by No. 2. Nos. 11, 12,13 and 14 were next in order in 
ripening. 
With this third straw crop on these plats, grown in 1890, the 
plats were crossed by the strips of each variety of wheat of which 
there was seed enough to reach across, in order that every variety 
should be subjected to as nearly as possible the same soil condi- 
tions. This was true of all the varieties except the three from 
the Canadian Experiment Station, of which one was sown across 
plats 1-7, and the other two across plats 8--14 and back across 14 
and 13. 
_ It seemed desirable to try only a few varieties of wheat from 
several sections of this country and from Canada. Accordingly, 
several varieties of winter wheat were selected and sown October 
third. These winter wheats were from W. L. Eastman, Ovid, N. Y.; 
_ Wm. McKane, Geneva, N. Y.; United States Department of Agri- 
_ culture, and seed grown here at the Station. The California, 
- South Dakota and Canadian Experiment Station wheats were all 
*Seventh Annual Report, pp. 178-180. 
succeeding plat once more than the last until Nos. 7 and 8 were | 
