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better than a thick stand but a thick stand will ripen 

 earlier than a thin stand. 



201. TTiisuitable Varieties. — Varieties of any of our 

 common grain crops that from any cause, such as lateness, 

 low quality, weak straw, or susceptibility to frost or dis- 

 ease, are not well suited to our conditions, result either 

 in low yields or in decreased prices. The standard vari- 

 eties that are known to be suitable to the different parts 

 of the West are as follows : — 



Crop. 



Best Varieties at 

 Present. 



Promising Varieties. 



Wheat 



Marquis and Eed Fife 



Kitchener for yield 

 Eed Bobs and Euby 

 for earliness 



Boots — Swedes Bangholm and others 

 Turnips Green Globe and others 



Mangels Yellow Intermediate and 



Average Soils Globe types 

 Deep Soil Long Eed and White 



Sugar 

 Shallow Soils Golden Tankard 



