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Moreover, their cultivation enabled the farmer to compete 

 with some measure of success against the ravages of 

 rust. Their high yielding power helped to make them 

 popular favourites from the start. 



Of the wheats we owe to Mr. Marshall, Marshall's 

 No. 3, Silver King, and Majestic (all extensively grown 

 all over Australia) are derived from Ward's Prolific, being 

 either selected sports from that variety or cross breds. 



Yandilla King, another very favourite wheat, is a cross 

 between Yandilla (Farrer's) and Silver King (Marshall's), 

 and hence a lineal descendant of Ward's Prolific. It will 

 be seen what an immense debt Australian wheat growers 

 are under to the two South Australian farmers, Messrs. 

 Ward and Marshall. Other notable varieties obtained 

 by selection from Ward's wheat are Gluyas, Carmichael's 

 Eclipse, and Buckl's Early, and these have proved to be 

 of even greater value than the original. 



Probably the most extensively cultivated of all is the 

 selection known as Stein wjdel, named after a farmer in 

 Balaklava, South Australia, who originated it. This 

 wheat is an extremely prolific and drought-resistant one, 

 and has been for many years by far the most popular 

 grain-wheat for the drier districts. It is still one of the 

 few non-Farrer wheats recommended for cultivation by 

 the New South Wales Department, though it is now 

 giving place to stronger flour varieties and to wheats less 

 liable to shell. 



Other South Australian wheat breeders who devoted 

 their energy to the production of improved varieties 

 suitable to South Australian conditions are Mr. Inglis, 

 who is the creator of the rust-resistant variety that bears 

 his name, and Mr. Leak, the originator of another " rust- 

 proof wheat." Both these wheats are still widely grown. 



These are the principal varieties we owe to Soutli 

 Australia, and before Mr. Farrer's wheats were created 

 these wheats were grown practically all over Australia. 

 It is no disparagement to them that they are being* 

 gradually replaced by varieties which have been more 

 systematically and scientifically bred for special purposes. 

 Many of Farrer's crosses are descendants of one or other 

 of these wheats, and the names of Ward and Marshall 



