328 THE farmers' handbook. 



" Medium Strong " and " Weak Flour " classes, and of those recommended 

 it is the earliest wheat to ripen. It yields satisfactorily for both hay and. 

 grain in districts of low rainfall. 

 Its pedigree is as follows : — 



Hornblende x Summer Club 



(White Fife) 



Sport from Blount's Lambrigg x Sunrise 



W (F) 



Sunset 



Thew. 



Thew is an early, medium tall, and fair stooling variety. The young 

 growth is vigorous, rather spreading, and of good colour. It has a medium 

 amount of foliage, which is green to the base of the plant. The leaves are 

 rather stiff and narrow. When ripe the straw is white, not very stout, and 

 inclined to be weak under good conditions. The ears are beardless, of 

 medium length and tapering, with the spikelets fairly open. The chaff is 

 white, smooth, and not very close. The grain is white, not very large, and 

 fairly plump. 



Thew is a crossbred, with pedigree as follows : — 



Sinew x Improved Fife Improved Fife x Hussar 



Unnamed x Unnamed 



C (F) TA selection from TT , 



Wi i' t u -i x Unnamed 



±$lount s LambriggJ 



Thew 



It is probably its earliness that enables it to escape rust rather than 

 any constitutional ability to resist the pest, for in some districts it has been 

 reported as rusty. 



Its soft straw, and habit of carrying green foliage light to its base, render 

 it a very suitable variety for hay. 



On the South Coast it has eclipsed all other varieties of wheat for the 

 purposes of green fodder for cattle in the early spring, when the pastures are 

 generally somewhat bare. 



As a milling wheat Thew belongs to the "Medium Strong" class, though 

 the colour of its flour is not quite up to the standard. 



Warden. 



In the early stages of growth Warden is rather profuse in habit. A.1 

 heading time, it has dark green leaves which are rather glaucous, narrow 

 and erect. The straw is quite tall, white, strong, hairy, stunt, and tough, 

 but not course. 



It is pre-eminently a hay wheat, showing a decided green tinge to the foot, 

 and the straw not carrying too much tlag. The car is white, erect, having a 

 slight tip awn, long, medium, open, uniform, with an acute tip; spikelets 

 narrow and regular, and with firmly attached glumes. 



The grain i> soft, of medium size, elongated, pale red and opaque, ami 

 belongs to the u cr>ft flour" class. 



