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The Seeding of Grain. 



order to throw some light on this question. The results of 

 1900 were as follows, per acre : — 



Variety. 



Weight 



Der 

 Bushel. 



Dressed 

 Grain. 



Light 

 Grain. 



Total 

 Bushels. 



Straw 

 and 

 Chaff. 



Abundance, new seed 



home seed 

 Waverley, new seed 

 home seed 



lbs. 

 40 

 39 

 39 

 38 



bushels 

 65H 

 53iu 

 57t 5 tt 

 5oH 



bushels. 



m 



bushels. 



68A 



55» 

 6oii 



53H 



cwts. 

 42 r 8 rV 

 44tU 

 4ItV? 



39f?x 



Average of new seed 

 ,, home seed 



39h 

 38* 



5*H 





64^ 

 54*4 



42 T TT 



Gain in favour of new seed 



1 



9t 6 o 



H 



9B 



T 4 A 



Quality of the Land. 



Land in good condition, and more especially if it is corn- 

 posed of a good sound loam, always produces plants which 

 tiller well. Land in poor condition manurially, or of a light 

 and porous nature, rarely produces a crop which tillers much. 



For these reasons, sound loams in good condition can be 

 seeded much thinner, and yet produce a much thicker crop, 

 than lighter or poorer soils. Owing to the fine seed-bed 

 usually afforded by sandy soils, these usually seem thickly 

 planted as the seed comes through the ground, while, owing 

 to feeble tillering power, the crop seems to get thinner as it 

 gets older, while with a sound loam it is quite the reverse. 



Date of Sowing. 



Early sown crops tiller much better than late sown ones y 

 if neither the earliness nor lateness is carried to such an 

 extreme as to interfere with the growth of the crop. This, in 

 great part, seems to be brought about by the early sown plant 

 having time to produce a tuft or stool, and, being thoroughly 

 rooted, it is then in a position to gather food easily, before the 

 period of rapid growth arrives. In the case of a late sown 

 plant, there is neither time to form a stool nor to throw up 

 many stalks before the period of principal growth is past. 

 Very late sown spring crops usually tiller little or not at all, and > 



