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(d) The Collector should be asked to initial the licence to show 

 that the bushes are landed, and the licence should then be 

 returned to the Board. 



(e) The bushes should be sent direct to their destination, and 

 on their arrival planted as soon as possible. The Board 

 should be informed of their arrival. 



(/) The bushes must be shown to any Officer of the Board or 

 Local Authority who requires to see them. 

 If the bushes are to be consigned to Ireland, the sanction of the 

 Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland must 

 also be obtained. 



SUMMARY OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS* 

 Experiments with Cereals. 



Varieties of Wheat (Univ. of Leeds, Bull. 74). — Trials with varieties 

 of wheat have been carried on at this centre for ten years. In 1908 

 seven varieties of English and one of Canadian wheat were grown. 

 White Stand-Up produced the best yield of grain (63 £ bus.), and seems 

 to be a variety very well suited to land in good condition. An exam- 

 ination of the grain samples showed that it had neither the strength 

 nor the percentage of flour of Standard Red or Squarehead's Master, 

 but the difference in value on this account is not estimated to be 

 more than 15. per qr. Standard Red and Browick Grey Chaff gave 

 equal yields (56 1 bus.), and as regards quality were classed first and 

 third of the red wheats. The same stock of Squarehead's Master has 

 been grown on the farm for ten years, and does not appear to have 

 deteriorated. It gave a yield of 54! bus. in 1908. 



Six varieties have now been grown for nine or ten years on the 

 farm, and have given the following average yields : — Squarehead's 

 Master (1st year seed), 41! bus. ; Browick Grey Chaff, 41! bus. ; Carter's 

 White Stand-up, 405 bus. ; Squarehead's Master (2nd year seed), 39J' 

 bus.; Webb's Standard Red, 39J bus.; Garton's Red King, 36! bus. 



Duluth (Canadian) wheat has been grown for five years from stock 

 imported and sown in 1903. The yield rose from 18 bushels in 1904 to 

 36! in 1906, and 35J in 1907 (a less favourable year), but fell to 24! 

 in 1908, a drop which cannot apparently be attributed to season. The 

 hope that Duluth would improve in yield through continued growth 

 in an English climate does not seem, therefore, to have been fulfilled. 



Improvement of Wheat (Report of Home Grown Wheat Committee 

 of National Assoc. of British and Irish Millers, 1907). — Summaries of 

 the report for the year 1906 have been given in this Journal, November, 

 1906, and November, 1907. In the report for 1907 it is stated that the 



* A short review or summary of the experiments carried out in this country, 

 classified according to subject, is given monthly. (The first appeared in the 

 issue for September, 1908.) This summary is not intended to do more than 

 give a brief indication of the character of the experiment and of the conclusions 

 reached. Those who are interested in any particular investigation can refer for 

 further details to the original publication. The Board would be glad to receive 

 for inclusion in this summary copies of reports on inquiries, whether carried 

 out by agricultural colleges, societies, or private persons. 



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