1Y4 ESSAYS ON WHEAT 



national Soil Products Exposition, the international prize 

 was again won with Marquis; and the winner was Mr. 

 Samuel Larcombe of Birtle, Manitoba. 



In the most recent competition, held in October of the 

 present year, 1918, under the auspices of the Thirteenth 

 International Soil Products Exposition at Kansas City, 

 Mr. Wheeler was again the successful competitor. He 

 showed samples both of Marquis and Eed Bobs. Unfor- 

 tunately, owing to some misunderstanding, no exact record 

 was made as to which of these two varieties won the prize. 

 Attempts made by the author to clear up this uncertainty 

 have proved abortive. Owing to his having won the In- 

 ternational prize five times, Mr. Seager Wheeler's name 

 has been brought prominently before the public as that of 

 one of the most successful grain growers on this con- 

 tinent. 



Erom the above, we can draw the interesting conclusion 

 that Marquis, or a derivative of Marquis, has won the in- 

 ternational prize for a sample of the best hard spring wheat 

 against all competitors from 1911 to 1917 inclusive, dur- 

 ing a period of seven successive years. 



X. Long-Period Tests for Earliness and Yield 



To show the practical advantage of growing Marquis 

 wheat in respect to earliness and yield, some exact data 

 will be cited. In plot tests on summer fallow land at 

 Indian Head, Saskatchewan, in a series of eleven years, 

 1907-17 inclusive. Marquis showed an average increase 

 of almost 40 per cent, over Eed Eife and ripened its 

 grains six days earlier than the older variety.^^ In simi- 



36 This percentage is either in pounds weight or bushels. Sixty 

 pounds weight make one standard bushel of wheat according to 

 law. The wheat is often weighed on the farm as it is being threshed 

 and always weighed at the elevator when it is about to be stored; 



