340  The  Woburn  Field  Experiments,  1910. 
The  ordinary  English  varieties,  “ White  Stand-up  ” and 
“ Red  Admiral,”  were  the  first  to  “ bloom,”  then  the  two 
Cambridge  wheats.  No.  2 being  the  earlier  ; of  the  French 
wheats,  “ Red  Marvel  ” was  the  earliest.  “ Red  Admiral  ” 
showed  the  longest  straw  and  was  a very  nice  piece  of  wheat. 
Of  the  two  Cambridge  varieties,  No.  1 was  generally  preferred. 
The  crops  in  Warren  Field  were  all  cut  on  August  20  and 
carted  September  2;  the  “ Wilhelmina  ” wheat  in  Lansome 
Field  was  cut  September  1 and  carted  September  18.  The 
harvest  results  are  given  in  Table  XIII. 
Table  XIII. — Varieties  of  Wheat , 1910. 
Warren  Field  and  Lansome  Field — Produce  per  acre. 
Head  corn 
Tail 
corn 
Straw. 
Value  of 
corn  per 
Varieties 
Weight 
Bush. 
Weight 
per 
bush. 
Weight 
chaff, 
&c. 
quarter 
on  basis 
of  32s. 
“White  Stand-up”  (English) 
“ Red  Admiral”  (English) 
Lb. 
1,804 
296 
Lb. 
610 
Lb. 
91 
C.  q.  lb. 
23  3 25 
s.  d. 
30  « 
2,325 
373 
622 
88 
34  2 25 
31  6 
“Treasure”  (French),  spring- 
sown  ..... 
1,787 
32  8 
545 
115 
27  3 16 
“ White  Marvel  ” (French) 
1,555 
256 
608 
55 
23  1 23 
31  0 
11  Red  Marvel  ” (French)  . 
1,645 
267 
6P5 
73 
22  0 1 
31  B 
“Sensation”  (French),  spring- 
sown  ..... 
1,751 
313 
56  0 
113 
24  0 26 
“ Dreadnought  ” (French), 
spring-sown  .... 
1,315 
22'8 
57-7 
81 
19  0 19 
30  0 
Cambridge  No.  1 (“  Little 
Joss”) 
1,878 
303 
620 
121 
30  0 17 
31  6 
Cambridge  No.  2 (8b) 
1,260 
20-0 
630 
117 
29  0 5 
32  0 
“Wilhelmina”  (Dutch),  spring- 
sown  ..... 
hansom 
2,797 
e Field 
474 
590 
449 
38  0 0 
31  0 
The  fact  that  three  of  the  French  varieties  had  to  be  resown 
in  spring  militates  somewhat  against  a fair  comparison  of  all 
the  results,  but  it  is  to  be  observed  that,  despite  this,  two  of 
the  -three  gave  a higher  produce  than  did  the  other  French 
varieties  sown  in  autumn.  The  ordinary  English  variety, 
“ Red  Admiral,”  produced  a larger  crop  than  any  of  the 
French  or  the  Cambridge  wheats ; this  amounted  to  37'3 
bushels  of  corn  with  34^  cwt.  of  straw  per  acre,  the  next 
highest  being  the  French  wheat  “ Treasure  ” — spring-sown — 
with  32'8  bushels  of  corn  and  28  cwt.  of  straw  per  acre.  The 
yield  of  “ Dreadnought  ” (French)  was  low,  and  both  the 
