20 DR. WM. SAUNDERS. 



RESULT OF TESTS OF VARIETIES OF SPRING WHEAT. 



In spring wheat thirty-one varieties have been under trial for five years. 



By Mr. Featherstone : 



Q. Which of the oats is the best for heavy strong land ? Which is the best for 

 standing up ? 



A. I think it would be very hard to beat the Banner. That variety seems to 

 adopt itself to many different sorts of soil. 



Of the thirty-one varieties of spring wheat which were under trial for five 

 vears, sixteen only have appeared in the list of the best twelve. As in the case of 

 oats, nine of the same varieties have appeared each time in the list among the best 

 twelve, and those which have dropped out of the best twelve varieties this year 

 continue to maintain their standing aw very good yielding sorts, the lowest of them 

 being less than a bushel per acre below the twelfth in the selected list. The list of 

 the best twelve varieties of spring wheat, taking the average of the results obtained 

 on all the experimental farms for five years, are : — 



Preston 



Wellman's Fife — 



Monarch 



Goose 



White Fife 



Rio Grande 



White Connell.. . — . 



Ret Fife 



Huron 



White Russian , , 



Pringle Champlain 



Red Fern 



The average of the whole is 31 bushels and 7 pounds to the acre. With barley 

 the results are still more striking. Of all the varieties of two-rowed barley tested, 

 the same six varieties which were at the head in 1897 were at the head in 1899 and 

 five out of the same six were at the head in 1898. In the case of the six-rowed 

 barley the same six sorts appear in the list as the best six during the whole time. 

 The six varieties of two-rowed barley which have given the best results for the five 

 years were as follows : — 



French Chevalier 

 Danish " 



Beaver ... 



Canadian Thorpe 



Sydney 



Newton 



Giving an average for the six of 42 bushels 39 pounds per acre. 



By Mr. Semple : 



Q. Does the Mensury not yield well? 



A. That i« a mx- rowed barley and these are the two-rowed. The best six 

 varieties of six-rowed barley which have produced the largest crops for the past five 

 years, taking the average of the results obtained atall the Experimental Farms, are: 



