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AN INTERESTING BULLETIN. 



Editor, IRRIGATION AGE: 



The Nebraska Experiment Station 

 has just issued Bulletin No. 125, on 

 "Wheat Breeding Experiments." A 

 brief historical sketch of wheat cul- 

 ture is given, together with charts 

 showing the principal wheat growing 

 areas. The total yield for the last 

 decade was twice that of the preced- 

 ing, and about four times that of the 

 decade 1870-1880. The increase is 

 largely due to increase in culture of 

 Turkey Red wheat, which first came 

 into the state about 1890. The im- 

 provement of Turkey Red wheat was 

 taken up by the Nebraska Experiment 

 Station in 1902, and has been con- 

 tinued since. 



Single heads and plants were se- 

 lected from large fields, and the pro- 

 duct of each head increased until suf- 

 ficient had been secured to plant test 

 plats in the fields. Field tests with 

 each strain were conducted for four 

 years to determine the best. Quite 

 marked variations were found in the 

 different pure strains of wheat, both 

 in yield of grain and in quality as well. 

 Also, marked differences in lodging 

 and winter-killing were noted. The 

 yield of 26 pure strains varied from 

 28.8 bushels to 40.7 bushels, as a four- 

 year average, while the original Tur- 

 key Red wheat average 35.1 bushels 

 under the same conditions. 



Twenty-one farmers also grew 

 eight-acre fields of the best selected 

 strains in comparison with ordinary 

 Turkey Red winter wheat and secured 

 an average of 25.9 bushels as com- 

 pared with 21.9 bushels for their own 

 wheat, or a gain of four bushels per 

 acre. 



This bulletin may be had free of 

 cost by residents of Nebraska upon 

 application to the Nebraska Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Lincoln. 

 E. A. BURNETT, 

 Director. 



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