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In addition to its qualities as a hay wheat, it is a 

 prolific, drought-resisting variety, and has done well in 

 the other States. In the drought year of 1902 (when the 

 average yield per acre for the Commonwealth was 

 2*4 bushels), Warden was the only variety that returned 

 over 10 bushels. 



College Purple and Wallace are other popular cross- 

 breds, the latter being specially suited to the cooler 

 districts. 



Of Mr. Pye's more recent creations, the following are 

 particularly promising : 



Commonwealth is a cross between Federation and 

 (Queen's Jubilee x Australian Talavera). In his Annual 

 Report for Dookie, July 31, 1913, Mr. Pye reports that 

 this wheat has given excellent results in South Australia 

 and New South Wales, as well as in Victoria. Yields as 

 high as 43 bushels to the acre have been reported, and in 

 several instances it has beaten Federation by 8 bushels. 

 In a dry district in South Australia, where other varieties 

 yielded only 8 to 9 bushels per acre, this wheat gave 

 15 bushels. 



Currawa, a cross between Little Club and (Cretan [a 

 durum] x Northern Champion) is another variety recently 

 distributed. In the first year of its distribution it won 

 first prize in a crop competition. Yields of 30 bushels to 

 the acre and over are common. This season the highest 

 yield recorded is 42 bushels in the north-east of Victoria. 



Major is a Federation x Wallace (see above) cross, and 

 is to be distributed next season, a bushel being sent to 

 ach of the agricultural societies for distribution to 

 selected farmers who report on its behaviour in the field. 

 It is a weak-flour variety, and has been twelve years 

 under observation. 



Yandilla x Red Bordeaux is another very promising 

 variety, which will be distributed in the same way the 

 season after next. It has given very high yields in the 

 farm plots for several seasons. This year it yielded in 

 the farm plots at the rate of 47 bushels to the acre. 



Moira is a weak-flour wheat of high promise as a 

 prolific yielder. 



