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bushels and 37 pounds of good wheat and 20 bushels and 5 pounds of 
screenings from 18 acres, an average of approximately 28 bushels an 
acre. He adds that the millers did not screen the wheat very closely 
since they needed all they could get and many half kernels went in. 
In the opinion of L. F. Strickland, agent, Department of Farms and 
Markets, who investigated wheat midge conditions in company with 
the Entomologist, these fields under conditions such as obtained last 
year should have yielded nearer 36 bushels to the acre which would 
mean a decrease in the crop of about 20 per cent due largely, if not 
entirely, to wheat midge. 
The field of George W. Mead, Barker, showing in the sample 3.4 
per cent shrunken grain, yielded 2677 bushels an acre, there 
being approximately 43 bushels of shrunken wheat to each 50 or 
60 bushels. 
R. D. Bowmiller, Lockport, obtained a yield of 225 bushels an 
acre, there being approximately 35 pounds of shrunken wheat to 
each 60 bushels. This yield is probably the average for the two fields, 
samples from which gave an average of 15 and 16 per cent of shrunken 
grain. 
Tron clad, a bearded wheat, had an average of a ‘ittle over 4 per 
cent of shrunken grain for a series of four samples, the average 
number of maggots toa head varying from 1to3. It is interesting to 
note that samples of no. 6, growing as a mixture with iron clad, in 
the field of A. J. Smith, showed 6.2 per cent shrunken grains and 
19 Maggots in a sample of ten heads. 
J. F. Reed, Gasport, obtained a yield of 26 bushels an acre from 
one field. He thinks he seeded too lightly as only about 1} bushels 
were sown to an acre. This is probably the average yield for his 
two fields which showed 2.4 and 8.59 per cent of shrunken grain 
respectively in the two samples taken. 
A. J. Smith, Newfane, obtained 283 bushels an acre. There 
was mostly chaff in the screenings. 
Two samples of Dawson’s golden chaff had an average of 5.66 per 
cent of shrunken grain, the number of maggots to a head averaging 
about 2. 
The field of Richard Bater, Le Roy, produced but 17 bushels an 
acre, the low yield being attributed in part at least to the hard winter. 
This appears probable since the field of Mr Mathews, with an almost 
identical percentage of shrunken grain in samples taken last summer, 
produced 33 bushels an acre and an estimated 3 pounds of shrunken 
grain to a bushel. 
Hundred mark, one sample, showed 29 per cent of shrunken 
