Seed Wheat. 



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It is of interest to see what effect these efforts at grading have had on the seed wheat. 

 I have, therefore, taken fifty-seven cases that show evidence of grading, and I find on 

 averaging them (see p. 18) that they give the following interesting figures, which are 

 graphically illustrated in Figs. 18 and 21 : 



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Fig. 20. Showing the 

 average condition in 

 which New South 

 Wales wheat is sown. 

 Compare this illus- 

 tration with that on 

 page 16, showing the 

 condition in which the 

 best of our growers sow 

 their seed. Compare 

 also with the nearly 

 perfect sample of Pur- 

 ple Straw wheat, shown 

 on p 12.. 



It will be seen that even these graded samples on the average fall very much short 

 of the normal product of perfectly-grown Purple Straw wheat. If, however, we take 

 the best of the samples shown in the table, we find that they considerably excel the 

 most perfect normal sample that could be grown. 



