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BULLETIN 357, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table VII. — Yield of wheat grown at NepM, Utah, in 1911 from pedigreed seed 
of 1910. 
Variety. 
C.I. No. 
Class. 
Yield per 
acre. 
3274-1 
1583-2 
2979-17 
2998-1 
3055-13 
2980 
1571-2 
Soft winter 
Hard winter 
do 
Bushels. 
38.1 
Kharkof . . 
31.0 
29.3 
Turkey 
do... 
27.7 
Do 
do 
27.3 
Stoner 
Soft winter 
Hard winter 
26.7 
Turkey 
18.0 
28.3 
RATE-OF-SEEDING TESTS. 
Eate-of -seeding tests have been conducted on the Arlington Farm 
by the United States Department of Agriculture with the Stoner 
(Miracle) wheat for three years, it having been first included in these 
tests in the sowings made in the fall of 1911. In these tests this wheat 
was compared in the first year with seven other varieties, four of 
which are well-known sorts commonly grown among farmers. In 
the two succeeding years it has been compared with three of these 
well-known sorts. The names of the varieties used and the yields for 
the different rates of seeding are given in Table VIII ; only those 
varieties being included which have been used throughout the entire 
3-year period. In 1912 no seeding of less than 4 pecks per acre 
was made of any of the varieties. In the succeeding two years seed- 
ings of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 pecks per acre were made. The plats 
were one-twentieth of an acre in size in 1912, and the tests were not 
replicated, but in 1914 the size of the plats was reduced to one-fortieth 
of an acre, and the sowings were made in duplicate and the results 
averaged. 
These results show that the best yield of Stoner wheat has been 
obtained by sowing 4 pecks per acre. When 2 pecks were sown in 
the two years 1913 and 1914, 22.15 bushels were harvested. In these 
same years 24.5 bushels were harvested from 3 pecks sown and 
24.95 from 4 pecks. From sowings of 5, 6, 7, and 8 pecks, less 
quantities were harvested than from the 3-peck or 4-peck seedings, 
but in each case more than from the 2-peck seeding. An addition 
of 2 pecks to the quantity sown has increased the yield over the 
2-peck sowing an average of 2.8 bushels per acre for the two years. 
Including the year 1912 and averaging for only the 4, 5, and 6 peck 
seedings, the best yield was again obtained by sowing 4 pecks, the 
yield here, 26.52 bushels, being larger than that secured from sowing 
either 5 pecks or 6 pecks per acre. Smaller or larger sowings were 
not made in the year 1912. 
