Farm Notes For 1894. 
BY W. W. COOKB AND F. L. WATROUS. 
WHEAT. 
Several varieties of wheat were sown in small plats on 
April 2d. They were irrigated May 23d and June 20th, and 
harvested August 11th. 
The Polish wheat was sown March 15th, irrigated May 
15t]i and June 22d, and harvested August 8th. 
Polish wheat is more commonly known in this State 
under the name of Mammoth Spring Rye, but the latter name 
is misleading. It is a true wheat, but of a different species 
from ordinary wheat. The Polish wheat was grown this 
year, under bad conditions of land and water and t^he yield of 
twenty-five bushels to the acre was much more than ordinary 
wheat would have been under the same conditions. It is a 
very hard wheat and when fed whole to our sheep was largely 
passed undigested. It does not make good flour but, when 
cracked, is an excellent stock food. 
Variety. 
Area of Plat 
Yield per Plat Yield per Acre 
in Acres. 
in Bushels. 
in Bushels. 
Saskatchewan Fife. 
0.25 
6. 
24 
Velvet Chaff Blue Stem. 
_ 0.25 
5. 
20 
Marvel. 
0.25 
4.5 
18 
Belotourka. 
0.0067 
0.11 
17 
Dur de Medeah. 
0.0067 
0.13 
20 
Polish.. 
12.00 
304. 
25 
OATS. 
Last season was especially favorable for oats. Copious 
rains came at just the right time to make the heads fill well 
and the oat crop of the Poudre Valley has never before been 
equalled. Nearly all the kinds raised on the farm did well 
and most of them very well. The three-acre plot of Silesian 
