WORK IN CONNECTION WITH EGYPTIAN WHEAT IN 1915, 



By G. HOLLAND. 

 Jiotanist to the Ministry of Agriculture. 



With a view to improving the quality and yield of the wheat 

 grown in the country, very careful selection work has been started in 

 order to separate the various types in the varieties which are at present 

 grown. 



After a complete trial of each kind on a sufficiently large scale, 

 pure strains will be propagated which should be better in the quality 

 of evenness, and some also in yield, than the mixture of varieties at 

 present in cultivation. 



So far about twenty types have been separated from the 

 ordinary Baladi variety, and the following notes give an account of 

 the work done at the Giza Experiment Farm in 1915, as well as 

 the result of three experiments which were conducted on land 

 belonging to the Giza School of Agriculture. 



Descriptions of the types ultimately selected will be given in a 

 later report. 



CULTIVATION AND GENERAL NOTES. 



Sowing took place between November 18 and December 1, 1914. 

 Most of the varieties sown were selections made from the native 

 varieties grown in 1913. 



Samples obtained from the following countries were also sown : 

 England, America, Russia, Cyprus, Australia, and the Sudan. 



The English wheats had been previously grown at Giza in 1913, 

 and are very easily distinguished from the other varieties on account 

 of their low habit of growth and large .amount of tillering. By reason 

 of their late maturity, the locusts, with which Egypt was visited, 

 destroyed almost the entire crop in April 1915, so that no seed was 



