GRAINS. GRASSES AND VEGETABLES. 
13 
pounds were sown from 5 to 7 ounces in each double row 20 
rods long. 
Double 
row 1 — 
6 
ounces 
made 
25 pounds 
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a 
2— 
5 
a 
u 
25 
U 
u 
u 
3— 
5 
u 
u 
26 
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u 
a 
4 
6 
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u 
23 
u 
u 
a 
5— 
6 
a 
u 
29 
u 
u 
a 
6— 
7 
u 
u 
29 
a 
u 
u 
7— 
6 
a 
u 
23 
u 
a 
a 
8— 
5 
u 
u 
28 
u 
a 
a 
9— 
5 
a 
u 
37 
(( 
a 
a 
10 — 
6 
u 
u 
31i 
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u 
a 
11 — 
7 
a 
u 
28 
u 
64 ounces 304J pounds 
Seed, 16 pounds per acre. * 9.5 bushels. 
Yield, 38 bushels per acre. 
These oats are the largest and finest looking of any that 
have been raised in this section. They weigh as high as 52 
pounds per bushel. They yield, under experimental treat¬ 
ment over 100 bushels per acre. 
SPECIAL WHEATS. 
Half an acre of very ordinary land was laid off in rows 
20 rods long, and nine varieties of special improved wheats 
were sown at the rate of from one to five ounces in each sin¬ 
gle row. These wheats have been crossed and bred up for 
three, four and five years. They clearly show their breeding 
in their yield and growth. The seed, to make it the very 
best, was hand picked the year before. After wheats have 
been crossed making new varieties, it takes at least three years 
to “fix” them. When first planted after crossing, the half 
and half grain does not breed true. It follows both father 
and mother and sometimes will pick up a characteristic 
belonging to an ancestor still further back. The crossed 
grain has to be bred in line, as stock is, for three or four 
years, before it will come true, or before it becomes a standard. 
