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season is long enough to ripen both sorts. Where the sea- 

 son is very short, Marquis, even on stubble, etc., has the 

 advantage because it ripens its grains' earlier than Ked 

 Fife. 



The yield of Marquis in the field in western Canada is 

 often very high and a few of the more noteworthy crops 

 may be mentioned. In 1909 a field of 4% acres at Bran- 

 don gave 52/4 bushels per acre. In 1910 a field of 5/4 

 aci'es at Indian Head gave a little over 53 bushels per 

 acre. But these records were surpassed in 1911 at the 

 Experimental Station at Eosthern, Saskatchewan, when a 

 /4o-acre plot yielded at the rate of 70 bushels per acre. 

 It was in this same year that Mr. Seager Wheeler ^" on 

 a YiQ-SiCie plot at Rosthem, obtained a yield at the rate 

 of 81 bushels per acre.^^ 



Mr. C. S. Noble, who is operating a ISjOOO-acre farm 

 in Alberta, purchased a limited supply of Mr. Seager 

 Wheeler's registered Marquis seed wheat in 1913. From 

 this, by propagation, he obtained a sufiicient supply of 

 grain to seed 1,000 acres in 1916. From this 1,000-acre 



60 For all of the above data vide Report of the Dominion Cereal- 

 ist in Report on Experimental Farms for 1911-12, Ottawa, 1912, 

 p. 119. The nature of Mr. Wheeler's plot and yield is given in 

 Section IX on Prizes awarded to Marquis. The field crops cited 

 for Brandon and Indian Head excelled the plot records at both 

 the Brandon and Indian Head Experimental Farms. 



^"^ Record Yield of Wheat According to the United States 

 Monthly Crop Report of July, 1918, the largest yield per acre of 

 wheat ever recorded is, so far as ascertained by the Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates, 117.2 bushels. It was produced in 1895 in Island County, 

 Washington, on a field of 18 acres. The farm on which this crop 

 was grown consisted of a clearing of 85 acres of black sandy loam 

 with a clay subsoil. It has been farmed for over 30 years, is not 

 irrigated, but is well diversified. No fertilizer has ever been used 

 on this farm. The variety of wheat sown was Australian Club. 

 The field that produced the record yield was in pasture for cattle 

 and sheep for several years, and for three years prior to producing 

 the yield of wheat was seeded to potatoes. 



