468 



Varieties of Wheat. 



[NOV., 



The results in 1906, calculated per acre, are given in the 

 following table : — 







Yield Per Acre. 





Approx. 

 Eength 



of 

 Straw 

 Cut, in 

 inches. 















Natural 













Weight 



Name of Variety. 



Saleable 

 Bushels 

 (63 lbs.) 



rsn G n pic 

 (^03 IDs., j 



Total 

 Grain 

 Bushels 

 (63 lbs.) 



Straw. 

 Cwts. 



per 

 Bu.shel 

 (lbs.) 



Webb's Standard Red 



493- 



54 



54l 



54i 





61 



Rivett's Cone 



47i 





54i 



59 



53 



61 



Squarehead Master (ist 











year) 



Carter's Red Standup... 



471 



6^ 



531 



49l 



49 





47 





53* 



5oi 



46 





White „ ... 



46i 





54i 



52i 



44 



60 



Carton's Red King ... 



451 





5of 



50I 



48 



61 



isrowick Grey Chart ... 



45t 



7^ 



52i 



54 



48 



62i 



Webb's White Queen 



45i 



4l 



50 



50j 



48 



6i# 



Squarehead Master (8th 











year) 



45 



6i 



51T 



48I 



47 



60 



Squarehead ]\Iaster (2nd 















year) 



44i 

 43t 



71 



52 



48 



48 



61 



Webb's New Defiance 



4| 



48J 



49, 



49 



61 



Scholey's Squarehead... 

 Carter's Royal Prize ... 



41 



7* 



48* 



48i 



47 



59i 



40.1 



n 



48i 



40? 



46 



62 



Duluth (Canadian) 3rd 















year... 



33t 



3 



36^ 



48I 



45 



61 



Red Fife 



22:1 





242 



36i 



43 



6oi- 



Of the red wheats the most satisfactory for yield and quality 

 were Standard Red, Squarehead Master, Red Standup, Rrowick 

 Grey Chaff and Red King. There was little to choose between 

 White Queen and White Standup. The latter on account of its 

 shorter and stiffer straw commends itself for land in good 

 condition. 



The tests with Squarehead Master over a series of years seem 

 to show that no great advantage is to be gained from frequent 

 changes of seed. 



The Canadian wheat, Duluth, has now been grown for three 

 years in succession, and it is interesting to note that the yield 

 seems to have improved the longer it has been grown, but this 

 may have been due more to the character of the past three 

 seasons than to the influence of acclimatisation. 



Yield Per Acre, 

 [90^. 1905. 1906. 



Saleable Corn (bushels) 



Seconds 



Total 



Straw (cwts.) 



i6t 



18 

 36 



293 

 1 



2 



291 

 43 



33i 

 3 

 36i 

 48i 



