Seed Wheat. 



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TABLE of Yields of Grain and Straw. (Third Trial) continued. 



Talavera de Bellevue. 



SUMMARY of Growth. (Third Trial.) 

 The rate of germination and growth is shown by the fact that : 



Out of 2,400 grains of the extra large or 325 grade 90 '0 per cent. grew. 

 5,800 ,, large or 300 ,, 90'9 



5,800 ,, medium or 250 ,, 87 '0 ,, 



,, 5,800 ,, small or tailings 77 '8 ,, 



by which is meant that this percentage of the grains produced plants that could be cut 

 and weighed, though the plants did not in all cases produce seed. The harvesting was 

 done as in the previous set. As before, the straw was tied up and weighed in the field, 

 where it rested on the ground. It is therefore necessary to call attention to the fact 

 that the straw may not have been in precisely the same condition of dryness in the two 

 years, and that therefore this fact should be borne in mind in any attempt to compare 

 the results of the one year with the other. I have full confidence that any difference 

 due to this cause may be safely neglected, but there is no experimental or other proof of 

 this. In both cases the weighings were made during a spell of dry weather. In both 



