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Trials of New Varieties of Winter Wheat. [Nov., 



comes into this country, the farmer will get the equivalent of 

 that price for his wheat harvested in 1921, instead of being 

 tied down, as he has been recently, to a controlled maximum 

 (of 95s.)." What the average world price may be for wheat 

 harvested next year it is impossible to forecast, but. as 

 the Minister remarked, if the farmer is protected on the 

 one hand against serious loss, if he grows wheat, by the 

 minimum price contained in the Agriculture Bill, and on the 

 other, if he is to have the chance of making his profit up to 

 the average world's price, this should prove a sufficient induce- 

 ment to bring about a largely increased sowing of wheat thi? 

 autumn. He would be animated not merely by motives of 

 patriotism, but by the fact that it will be well worth his while 

 to do it. which, after all, is the best inducement. 



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(1) Waricic'kshirc Farm Institute — Trials with Yeoman and 

 Svalof Iron have been carried out on New Red Sandstone at the 



Trials of New ^o^^i^ty Farm Institute, Marton, Warwick- 



• 1.- £ TTT- i. shire, in the three vears 1917-1919, and an 

 Varieties of Winter • ^ • r 



Wheat in 1919. ^^^^^S^ y^^^^ ^^^^'^ 



bushels (of 63 lb.) of grain per acre has 



been obtained for Yeoman and 48} bushels of grain for Svalof 



Iron, as compared with 33} bushels of grain over the average of 



six years for Browick. The plot land in 1919 was very poor, 



and the results in that year depressed the averages of the previous 



two years, which were for Yeoman 53 J bushels and for Svalof 



Iron 59 bushels of grain per acre. Yeoman has stood up well in 



these trials. 



(2) CocMe Pari-, Xorthumherland . — About 5 acres of Iron 

 wheat were sown with a disc coulter drill in the autumn of 1917 

 on land plou2:hed out for oats in 1917 : it was previously an excel- 

 lent meadow which had received repeated applications of dung 

 and basic slag. This variety threshed out at 65} bushels per 

 acre. The result showed that a good second corn crop can be 

 grown without manure after ploughing out old turf which has 

 been Hberally treated, especially with basic slag. 



About 7.} acres of poor clay soil which had failed for roots in 

 1918 and had received 15 tons of dung to the acre was summer- 

 fallowed and sown with Iron, Yeoman and Benefactor wheats. 

 No further manure was applied. The crops of grain were (per 



