1910.] Summary of Agricultural Experiments. 59 



The President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 



has appointed a Departmental Committee to enquire and 



report as to the character and extent of 

 Departmental the British rt tmde in Hye stQck 

 Committee on the , , , 



Export Trade in (including horses and poultry) with the 



Live Stock. Colonies and other countries, and to 



consider whether any steps can with 

 advantage be taken by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 or otherwise, with a view to its development. 



The Committee will be constituted as follows : — Sir Edward 

 Strachey, Bart., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries (Chairman) ; Sir Richard 

 P. Cooper, Bart; Mr. Charles Adeane; Mr. Richardson Carr; 

 Mr. Vaughan Davies, M.P.; Mr. John M. Fraser; Mr. Alex. 

 T. Gordon, Jnr. ; Colonel H. Le Roy Lewis, D.S.O.; 

 Mr. T. H. Middleton, M.A., M.Sc, one of the Assistant 

 Secretaries of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr. 

 Sanders Spencer; Mr. F. H. Stericker. Mr. A. E. Balleine, 

 of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, will act as 

 Secretary. 



SUMMARY OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS* 

 Experiments with Cereals. 



Continuous Growing of Wheat and Barley (Rothamsted Experimental 

 Station, Ann. Rept. for 1909.) — The results are given of the crops in 

 1909 on Broadbalk field, where wheat has been grown continuously 

 for 66 years, and on Hoos field, where barley has been grown 

 continuously for 58 years. The season was wet, and the most notice- 

 able feature was the exceptional reduction of the wheat crop wherever 

 potash had been omitted . from the manure. On these non-potash 

 plots rust and other fungoid diseases were particularly prevalent. As 

 a rule potash shows its greatest effect in dry rather than wet seasons. 



The Inheritance of Strength in Wheat (Jour. Agr. Science, Vol. III., 

 Pt. 1, Dec, 1908.) — The experiments of the National Association of 

 British and Irish Millers have shown that Red Fife, the best-known^ of 

 the hard Manitoban wheats, retains its strength when grown under 

 English conditions, although very frequently its yield is not great 

 enough for profitable cultivation here. These experiments had for 

 their object the investigation of the mode of inheritance of strength in 

 wheat, with a view to building up a variety having the strength of 



* 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. 



