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Red Fife Wheat. 



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Treatment. — i. Handpicking the Sawflies from the blossom 

 or shaking them down in dull weather or in the evening and 

 then destroying them. Where the attack is on plants that 

 are not very tall this measure is quite a practicable one ; it 

 will reduce the egg-laying and will militate against the brood 

 for the next year. 



2. All infested apples should be picked from the trees, and 

 burnt. 



3. All the small attacked apples that have fallen away of 

 themselves should be collected and burnt. 



The last two measures, when the Sawfly has been noticed 

 at work, should be practised at regular intervals. 



R. Stewart MacDougall. 



The experiments which are being made by the Home-Grown 

 Wheat Committee of the National Association of Millers with 

 a view of testing the strength of wheats 



Red Fife Wheat. are gradually being restricted to Red 

 Fife, as it is evident that this sort is able 

 to maintain its excellent qualities when cultivated in England. 

 A preliminary report on the results obtained in 1906 appeared 

 in this Journal, November, 1906, but some further particulars 

 have now been published by the Committee. 



Yield per Acre. — The yield of grain per acre in 1906 was 

 variable, the highest being 52 bushels per acre and the lowest 

 21 J. Fife invariably has small ears, and does not appear when 

 growing at all likely to yield well. One farmer, with a long 

 experience of wheat growing, reported that he expected 

 24 bushels per acre, but actually obtained over 40. Fife seems 

 to create the same impression on almost all growers, and the 

 illusion is caused by the fact that it yields a very great number 

 of ears per acre. A bushel of Fife contains 22 per cent, more 

 grains than a bushel of Square Head's Master, and, therefore, 

 if the same quantity of each be sown, the Fife is likely to have 

 a much thicker plant than Square Head's Master. It has also 

 been ascertained by actual counting that Fife tillers exceedingly 

 well, and the number of stems counted in the stubble imme- 

 diately after harvest were in the proportion of 150 Fife to 100 



