EXPERIMENTS WITH DURUM WHEAT. 
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two years. The resulting data from these and from representative 
varieties of the Fife and Preston groups are shown in graphic form 
in figure 12. In the 11-year period, the durum variety is seen to 
outyield Red Fife by 8.1 bushels and Preston by 11.2 bushels per 
acre. 
RESULTS AT INDIAN HEAD, SASKATCHEWAN. 
The Indian Head Experiment Farm has an average annual pre- 
cipitation of 19.4 inches, based on a record covering 10 years. It 
is maintained by the Canadian Department of Agriculture, and the 
results given in Table XXVI are taken from the published annual 
reports (Canada Experimental Farms, 1896-1908). 
Table XXVI. — Annual and average yields of three varieties of durum wheat and two 
varieties of common wheat grown on the Indian Head (Saskatchewan) Experiment Farm 
during periods of varying length in the thirteen years from 1895 to 1907, inclusive. 
Yield per acre (bushels.) 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
Average. 
Class, group, and variety. 
4 
years, 
1904 
.to 
1907. 
13 
years, 
1895 
to 
1907. 
Durum: 
Goose (Arnautka) 
33.4 
45.8 
27.2 
34.4 
31.6 
20.0 
63.0 
51.6 
36.2 
46.0 
43.1 
43.4 
41.7 
39.6 
43.1 
54.6 
51.3 
52.0 
35.3 
37.6 
51.6 
49.0 
52.6 
39.3 
43.6 
31.6 
25.6 
29.3 
23.3 
12.0 
45.2 
42.3 
43.9 
34.4 
34.1 
40.3 
Common: 
Preston— Preston '45. 6'41. 8 
Fife— Red Fife 45. 41. 4 
1 I 
36.0 
37.8 
42.2 
44.4 
33.4 
39.6 
15.4 
30.4 
57.4 
57.0 
48.6 
29.4 
43.2 
38.5 
38.5 
38.4 
The experiments extend from 1895 to 1907, a period of 13 years. 
The same varieties are included as at Brandon, viz, a durum called 
Goose, probably Arnautka, with Preston and Red Fife, two spring 
common wheats. As at Brandon, two other durum varieties, Mah- 
moudi and Yellow Gharnovka, are included during the last five and 
four years, respectively. Arnautka outyielded the other two durums 
in the short period during which all were grown. In the 13-year 
period it outyielded Preston by 1.8 bushels and Red Fife by 1.9 
bushels per acre. A market for durum wheat was not developed in 
Canada, so the wheat was not recommended for general cultivation 
by the Dominion Cerealist, and finally the varieties were discon- 
tinued from experimental tests. 
RESULTS IN THE ARID BASIN ANI> COASTAL AREAS. 
This geographic division includes most of the territory west of 
the Rocky Mountains. In the basin area are included the States and 
portions of States between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada and 
