UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 400 



Contribation from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D, C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



October 26, 1916 



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EXPERIMENTS WITH MARQUIS WHEAT 



By 



CARLETON E. BALL, Agronomist in Charge, and J. ALLEN CLARK, 



Scientific Assistant, Western Wheat Investigations, 



OfBce of Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 



History of Marquis Wheat 



Origin 



Experiments in Western Canada . 



Introduction into the United States 



Description of MarQuis Wheat ... 



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Siimmary of Yield Data 38 



Milling and Baking Quality 40 



Varietal Experiments . . . . 

 Source of the Seed . . . 

 Geographic Area Covered 

 Results Obtained . . , 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1916 



