188 NORTHEAST EXPERIMENT FARM. 
Wheat.—The work which has been done with wheat has 
been chiefly to test the capacity of the soil and climate for its 
production, rather than to emphasize it as a cropfor export. 
Wheat growing for the market should logically be confined 
to prairies or old and well developed communities, where 
nearly all the land can be cultivated by machinery. In this 
new and uncleared section wheat can only be raised profit- 
ably on a small scale to supply a local demand. On this ac- 
count the same importance has not been attached to the 
testing of varieties as with oats, yet 21 kinds have been 
tried since ’96. Of these the best eleven have been grown 
continuously for five years, and the yields are shown in 
Table C. The average yield of these varieties is shown for 
each year at the foot of the column. The general average 
of 17.4 bushels is as fair a figure as can be obtained for a 
representative yield of wheat in this vicinity. 
TABLE C.--Wheat, Yields of Eleven Varieties for Five Years. 














Minne- | | Aver- 
sota NAME 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | age 
No. derene| pee : | Yield 
GOMES liters teresa aeeeee nee eee OES) | e3!4y 12195) 26tS0 24. Ol ors) 
146 | Bolton’s Blue Stem.............. 19.3 | 13.0 | 15.1 | 24.4 | 23.0 | 19.0 
47a. | Ristings Fitesc see sen ee 16.7 | 12.9 | 15.7 | 19.3 | 25.7 | 18.4 
51 Eaynes! Blue Ste iir---.--.<<ses-se 23.0 | 11.7 12.1 20.4 22.7 18.0 
TB? || Sip RaVsoVat G/B slg parsnocccorocsnoswces: TUsyee || Slate | alae) WN CYR |) BYE ce NN. Siete 
AG 5el| wiellintantspHite esses sewn PXOn7Te || soley | sae | SIO). || SEO i} sues 
SUS) CliyanGlona {BShocaoooocscotooncos0ees WG, SIS || 5) Saas |) see |! TGLS: 
181 | McKendry’s Fife............ ...... AAS) t|) 2 2p | AARON RSE So Otome Ges 
NESE MGlyndonkSilelesese sees eee see || alee || SW || Bye) || Seyes Il sie 
G66. bsPoweta ites: Sect 2057." (Pr Sviilietaca se 20e20 | oo8 ledieis 
188 TES LOttecsasascsneseteasscsaneansiessees 15.2 13.4 | 13.2 alzieot 18.5 | 15.5 
Average of Varieties......... 18.1 bl) | 14.4 | 20.4 | 22.3 | 17.4 





If the wheat is grown on a small scale for home con- 
sumption as flour or chicken feed, the yield is more import- 
ant than the grade. The Blue Stem wheats have so far 
averaged better than Fife. Three Blue Stem varieties tested, 
yielded an average of 1.2 bushels more than the best three 
Fife wheats, and 1.7 bushels better than the seven kinds of 
Fife in a five year test. 
