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it on a measured area adjoining a similar area sown with his 

 ordinary crop, viz., Golden Drop. Of the latter he obtained 

 41 J bushels per acre, and of the Fife 43! bushels per acre. 

 Still more important is the fact that whereas in the bake- 

 house Golden Drop earned 56 for strength, Fife, as an average 

 of several trials, earned 86. Two loaves of bread, one made 

 from Golden Drop, the other from Fife, are shown in the 

 illustration, as well as a third loaf, raised from the same stock 

 at Cambridge. Mr. Humphries observed that " both flours have 

 been treated quite fairly ; the Fife has to be treated some- 

 what differently to the other, for whereas the Golden Drop, 

 although an exceedingly fine lot, is simply English wheat, 

 giving us what I may call stodgy doughs, the Fife is a different 

 article altogether, giving doughs of the tough elastic nature 

 characteristic of flours made from American wheat." The 

 crop of this wheat grown last year on the farm in question 

 was sold at a high price, and this year forty acres of Fife wheat 

 have been sown. It is also being grown in quantity at a 

 number of other places. The result obtained from this wheat 

 is regarded as of the highest importance, as the first object 

 of the enquiry is to find wheats which, even if they fail in 

 other respects, maintain their strength in this country. These 

 could then be used for crossing with a view to the fixing 

 of other desirable qualities. In order to avoid delay, the 

 Committee are crossing together all the varieties of any promise 

 as far as strength goes with a number of the best English 

 varieties, and also with a few new ones which have good 

 yielding and good straw characteristics. 



An account was given in this Journal for July, 1904 (p. 219), 

 of a series of experiments which were being conducted by the 

 Agricultural Department of the Reading 



Manurial College to investigate the manurial require- 

 Requirements s & * 



of Swedes. ments of swedes. 1 he results of the opera- 

 tions of another year are now available, but 

 it is proposed to continue the trials for several more seasons. 

 The amount of manure applied to each plot, the cost and the 



