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has been attained in selecting Red Fife for increased earliness and in 

 producing early ripening cross-bred varieties, some of which are 

 of very great value, nevertheless the work is being continued. About 

 fifty new cross-bred varieties of considerable promiss reached the 

 stage for baking tests in 1909 and over 100 in 1910, and the Cerealist 

 expects to have approximately one or two hundred more during the 

 next few years. Out of these three or four hundred new varieties, 

 this officer expects to be able to select a few sorts which will be in 

 advance of the best yet produced, from the point of view of those 

 districts where the summer is short. 



OTHER GRAINS. 



In the matter of producing new sorts of grain, the work has 

 been confined chiefly to wheat. Very important work, has, however, 

 been accomplished with other kinds of grains and field crops. As 

 with wheats, varieties of oats, barley, peas, rye, etc., have been 

 secured from every available source and tested in plots. Those that 

 fail to reach a certain standard of excellence are discarded while the 

 better sorts are submitted to further test on sufficiently large areas 

 to prove their worth. By the process of elimination only promising 

 introductions are retained, and the best of these are cultivated on a 

 large scale so as to admit of their free distribution for the use of growers 

 in different parts of the Dominion. In barley and oats, many new 

 sorts have been produced, special attention being paid to hull-less 

 and beardless kinds and to those varieties of very early maturing 

 habit. New cross-bred peas have been produced including a number 

 of varieties of the Crown type. 



I or the past seventeen years, a special annual bulletin has been 

 issued giving the results obtained on all the Experimental Farms 

 from trial plots of grain, fodder corn, field roots and potatoes. In 

 this bulletin the varieties are arranged in tables in the order of their 

 average yield for a number of years. Through this medium, farmers 

 in all the provinces are able to learn of the sorts that yield best in 

 their respective parts of Canada, and if they are not able to readily 

 procure seed of these sorts for a large acreage they can at least pro- 

 cure samples from one of the Farms, from which they can very soon 

 produce a large stock. It is through this branch of the work of 

 the Experimental Farms that Banner Oats and Mensury barley became 

 so generally grown over the Dominion, a number of years ago. And 

 while attractive, new sorts, have been in more recent years brought 

 out, these two old kinds are still being adhered to in many parts of 

 Canada. 



