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bushels and 37 pounds of good wheat and 20 bushels and 5 pounds of 

 screenings from 18 acres, an average of approximately 28 bushels an 

 acre. He adds that the millers did not screen the wheat very closely 

 since they needed all they could get and many half kernels went in. 

 In the opinion of L. F. Strickland, agent. Department of Farms and 

 Markets, who investigated wheat midge conditions in company with 

 the Entomologist, these fields under conditions such as obtained last 

 year should have yielded nearer 36 bushels to the acre which would 

 mean a decrease in the crop of about 20 per cent due largely, if not 

 entirely, to wheat midge. 



The field of George W. Mead, Barker, showing in the sample 3.4 

 per cent shrunken grain, yielded 26tt bushels an acre, there 

 being approximately 4I bushels of shrunken wheat to each 50 or 

 60 bushels. 



R. D. Bowmiller, Lockport, obtained a yield of 22I bushels an 

 acre, there being approximately 35 pounds of shrunken wheat to 

 each 60 bushels. This yield is probably the average for the two fields, 

 samples from which gave an average of 1 5 and 1 6 per cent of shrunken 

 grain. 



Iron clad, a bearded wheat, had an average of a little over 4 per 

 cent of shrunken grain for a series of four samples, the average 

 number of maggots to a head varying from i to 3 . It is interesting to 

 note that samples of no. 6, growing as a mixture with iron clad, in 

 the field of A. J. Smith, showed 6.2 per cent shrunken grains and 

 19 maggots in a sample of ten heads. 



J. F. Reed, Gasport, obtained a yield of 26 bushels an acre from 

 one field. He thinks he seeded too lightly as only about i| bushels 

 were sown to an acre. This is probably the average yield for his 

 two fields which showed 2.4 and 8.59 per cent of shrunken grain 

 respectively in the two samples taken. 



A. J. Smith, Newfane, obtained 28 J bushels an acre. There 

 was mostly chaff in the screenings. 



Two samples of Dawson's golden chaff had an average of 5.66 per 

 cent of shrunken grain, the number of maggots to a head averaging 

 about 2. 



The field of Richard Bater, Le Roy, produced but 17 bushels an 

 acre, the low yield being attributed in part at least to the hard winter. 

 This appears probable since the field of Mr Mathews, with an almost 

 identical percentage of shrunken grain in samples taken last summer, 

 produced 33 bushels an acre and an estimated 3 pounds of shrunken 

 grain to a bushel. 



Hundred mark, one sample, showed 29 per cent of shrunken 



