1921.] Campaign for Increased Wheat Production. 



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A CAMPAIGN FOR INCREASED 

 WHEAT PRODUCTION. 



IMPROVED VARIETIES AND MANURES. 



A CAMPAIGN, designed to secure, by educational methods^ 

 increased production of wheat in this country, has been instituted 

 by the Ministry, and a series of addresses has recently been given 

 in connection with this campaign in certain of the midland 

 counties of England, by the Principal of the Harper-Adams 

 Agricultural College (Mr. P. Hedworth Foulkes). 



One of the main objects of the campaign is to increase pro- 

 duction, and probably this can best be brought about by raising 

 the average yield per acre throughout the country. To do this 

 is readily possible with the extended growing of the new varieties 

 that give a higher yield. 



Proof of the value of practical demonstrations has been provided 

 by the Harper-Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Salop, 

 where the growing of modern improved varieties of wheat has 

 been carried on for many years. One result is that in the course 

 of two or three seasons, several thousand acres in the surrounding 

 counties were employed for cultivating the variety of wheat which 

 had done best in the College Trials. The increased value was 

 then estimated at a figure ranging from 22s. 6d. to £'2 per acre. 



The average yield per acre for England and Wales from 1867 

 to 1871 was 27.3 bushels, whereas from 1915 to 1919 the figure 

 was 30.9 bushels. Some of this increase must be attributed to 

 the new and improved yielding varieties which have been grown 

 during the latter period. 



For the purpose of comparison the following results of the 

 last three years' Trials at the College are usfeul. They demon- 

 strate clearly that the average yield per acre for the country 

 could be raised materially by the adoption of one or other of the 

 newer varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Yield inr A 

 1917. 



ere in 

 1918. 



Bushels. 



1919. 



Average, 



Svalof Iron 



53 



61 



54 



56 



Fenman... 





54 



50 



52 



Marshal Foch ... 





55 



48 



m 



Fox 





50 



52 



51 



Victor 



48 



47 



52^ 



49i 



Browick 



461 



55 



48 



49i 



Yeoman 



42 



54 



47 



48 



Square Heads Master ... 



4(3 



46 



34 



42 



Standard 







. 33 



33 



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