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BULLETIN 357, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table IV. — Yield of Stoner {Miracle) wheat tested at College Park, Md., at 
different rates of seeding, in comparison with other varieties seeded at the 
rate of 6 pecks per acre. 
Yield per acre of Stoner wheat at differ- 
ent rates of seeding. 
Best 
yield ob- 
tained 
from 
other . 
varieties. 
Number 
of va- 
rieties 
tested. 
Rank of 
best 
plat of 
Stoner 
wheat. 
Crop year. 
2 pecks. 
6 pecks. 
Grain. 
Straw. 
Grain. Straw. 
1912 
1913 
1914 
Bushels. 
22.67 
12.53 
34.23 
Pounds. 
4,540 
1,948 
3,686 
Bushels. 
27.87 
16.20 
32.33 
Pounds. 
5.740 
1,988 
3,740 
Bushels. 
29.20 
28.33 
41.87 
52 
42 
41 
5 
34 
31 
23.14 3 391 1 25 47 
3,823 
' 
From the data given in Table IV it is seen that better yields of 
grain were obtained from the 6-peck seeding in two years out of 
three, and the average for the three years is 2.33 bushels larger for 
the heavier seeding. The 6-peck per acre seeding has resulted in 
the better yield of straw for each year of the test. It is further seen 
that Stoner (Miracle) wheat is not as good a yielding wheat as 
many others that are being grown. In the year 1912, when it did 
best, compared with other varieties, it was fifth in yield among the 
52 varieties tested and fell behind the best variety 1.33 bushels. In 
1913 it was thirty-fourth among the 42 varieties tested, and in 1914, 
thirty-first anions: the 41 varieties tested. 
TESTS AT ARLINGTON FAEM. 
Tests similar to those made at the Maryland Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station have been made at the Arlington Farm, Rosslyn, 
Va., by the Office of Cereal Investigations of the United States 
Department of Agriculture. The wheat used in these tests was 
developed from a small amount of seed presented to the office by 
Mr. K. B. Stoner in 1907. The tests here have been carried on for 
four years, 1911 to 1914, inclusive. The varieties were grown in 
one-tenth or one-twentieth acre plats and were seeded at the rate 
of 6 pecks per acre. The results are shown in Table V. 
Table V. — Yield of Stoner (Miracle) wheat tested at Arlington Farm, Rosslyn, 
Va., in comparison with other varieties in similar plats. 
Crop year. 
Yield 
per acre 
of Stoner 
wheat. 
Best yield 
obtained 
from other 
varieties 
and strains. 
Number 
of varie- 
ties and 
strains 
tested. 
Rank of 
Stoner 
wheat. 
1911 
Bushels. 
25.20 
30.17 
22.00 
32. 30 
Bushels. 
32.30 
37.17 
34.70 
3S.20 
34 
37 
41 
36 
11 
1912 
16 
1913 
18 
1914 
6 
27.42 
