ALASKA AND STOKER, OR MIRACLE, WHEATS. 



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Similar tests to determine the tillering power of Stoner (Miracle) 

 wheat were' conducted in the years 1909, 1911, and 1912 at Nephi, 

 Utah, by the United States Department of Agriculture in coopera- 

 tion with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. The sowing 

 was in head rows 10 feet long and 1 foot apart, the seeds being placed 

 4 inches apart in the row. The results are shown in Table X. 



The average number of culms produced by the plants of this 

 wheat in the three years is 11. It is third in rank among the nine va- 

 rieties tested for all or part of the time, but it produced eight culms 

 less than the best tillering variety, the Turkey, which produced an 

 average of 19 culms per plant for the three years. In no year was 

 the Stoner wheat highest in culms produced. In yield this wheat 

 ranks third as an average for all varieties tested for the three years. 

 A yield test in head rows, how^ever, is inclusive. Yield tests in one- 

 twentieth acre plats at Nephi have been previously reported. 



Table X. — Tillering potver and yield of Stoner {Miracle) tcheat and eight other 

 iciieats at Nephi, Utali, in the years 1909, 1911, and 1912. 



C. L No. 



Variety. 



Class. 



Average number of 

 heads per plant. 



Yield per row (grams). 



1909 



1911 



1912 



Aver- 

 age. 



1909 



1911 



1912 



Aver- 

 age. 



3055-13 



Turkey 



KofEoid 



Gold Coin 



Hard red winter — 

 Sol't white winter . . 

 .. ..do 



13 

 9 



7 

 7 



3 



5 



7 

 6 

 4 



25 

 16 

 16 

 16 



18 

 10 

 7 

 11 



19 

 12 

 10 

 11 



3 



5 

 7 

 6 

 3 



210 

 253 

 191 

 213 



47 



56 

 211 



144 



181 

 265 

 165 

 186 



»8 

 157 

 129 

 116 



180 



2997-5 



2996-2 



225 

 162 



2980 



Miracle 



Alaska 



Black Don 



Silver Club.... 



Galgalos 



Durum 



Semihard red win- 

 ter. 



Soft white winter 

 (or spring). 



Durum 



172 





47 



2100 



5 





25 





41 



3001-1 



Soft winter club 



Soft white spring... 

 Durum 



211 



2398-1 











144 



2934-1 



3 



3 























6.8 



13.5 



9.8 



8.2 



165.6 



164.4 



137. 5 



147.7 











GENERAL TESTS BY STATE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



TESTS IN KENTUCKY. 



The following results of tests of Miracle wheat made at the Ken- 

 tucky Agricultural Experiment Station are published in Bulletin 

 155 of that station : 



Seed sown per acre. 



Yield per acre in 1911. 



Miracle. 



Harvest 

 King. 



2 pecks. 



3 pecks. 



4 pecks. 



5 peeks. 



6 pecks. 



7 pecks. 



8 pecks. 



Bushels. 

 31.3 

 32.7 

 34.7 

 35.3 

 36.7 



Bushels. 



35.0 

 35.0 

 34.7 

 36.3 

 25.0 



