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of Red Bobs, Marquis, and Kitchener (his selection from 

 Marqnis), the first-named certainly appeared by its yel- 

 lower color to be some days earlier than the other two. 



VII. Red Bohs at the University of Saskatchewan 



After selecting Red Bobs in 1910, Mr. Wheeler sold 

 some of his White Bobs to Mr. George Harvey, a neigh- 

 boring farmer, who showed a sample of the harvest which 

 it yielded at the Rosthern Seed Fair in the winter of 

 1913-13. The exhibit won a first prize. Professor 

 Bracken, of the Field Husbandry Department of the 

 University of Saskatchewan, who was acting as a judge 

 at the Fair, took home a sample of the prize White Bobs 

 and sowed it in one of the University plots in the spring 

 of 1913. When the harvest had been secured, he searched 

 the bulk threshing and found a few red kernels like those 

 obtained by Mr. Wheeler in 1910. These red kernels 

 were planted out in 1914 in foundation plots, and they 

 gave rise to various wheat-plant types, some of which were 

 bald, some bearded, etc., resembling those which had been 

 obtained by Mr. Wheeler from his first red grains in 1911. 

 Since 1914, Professor Bracken has been engaged in select- 

 ing the most desirable of the types and in discarding those 

 which are not fixed. In 1915 he sowed centgener plots, 

 each little square of ground being seeded with the seed 

 obtained from the heads of a single plant of the previous 

 year. The harvest of each centgener plot was subjected 

 to a bulk threshing, and the grain resulting was sown 

 in 1916 in a multiplier plot. Each multiplier plot con- 

 sisted of two rows, 100 links long, equal to an area of %oo- 

 acre. The harvest of each multiplier plot was subjected 

 to a bulk threshing, and the grain resulting was sown in 

 1917 upon a Hoo-acre plot. The grain obtained from, 



