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W. CATTON GRASBY, F.L.S. 
patient work to secure just the combination most desired. 
The first wheat considered good enough for distribution 
by the Home-grown Wheat Committee of which Professor 
Biffin is a member was named Burgoyne’s Fife, and it was 
the Report of the trials of this wheat in season 1911, which 
prompted these notes. The report is a scientific document: 
because it is a statement of fact. 
" The Committee has suppressed nothing unfavourable to the- 
wheat, and has published in these returns the opinions expressed by 
the growers themselves. It does not necessary endorse or dissent from 
any opinion expressed in these returns.” 
I have quoted these sentences because, in my opinion, they 
express the essence of the scientific spirit. 
As in Australia, so in Britain, no one variety will suit 
all conditions equally well, but the reports show that Bur- 
goyne’s Fife is succeeding under as wide a range of con- 
ditions in Britain as is Federation w heat in Australia. The 
wheat has also been thoroughly tested in the mill and has 
proved to resemble the best Manitoba wheat, being : — 
“ so much superior in baking qualities to average English wheats' 
and fit, if needs be for use by itself in the manufacture of flour for the 
bast London trade." 
The tabulated reports show that the yield varied on 
the 39 farms where it was grown on a commercial scale from 
20 bushels to 56 bushels per acre. Only three were under 
30 bushels. Twenty were over 36 bushels, and twelve over 
40 bushels to the acre. The remarks of growers are most 
interesting. One states : — 
"The quality of grain superb. Won 1 st prize and champion for 
all wheats shown at the United Farmers’ Club Grain Show, 1911. 
Said by judges to be equal to the best Manitoba.” 
Others report that it is worth 3s. to 4s. per quarter 
(4|d. to 6d. per bushel) more than other English wheats.. 
Every grower reported that he intended sowing it again. 
