

= 
87 
We thus are funished with the following conclusions, derived 
from the comparison of Series A and C. There is a difference in 
the amount of seed which vegetates ; in the number that winter kills; 
in the number of the survivors in the spring that furnish crop ; 
in the number of heads born from one*seed ; that one head is dis- 
tinctly better than other heads, and that one seed of a head is dis- 
tinctly better than the other kernels of the head. 3 
It follows therefore that a series of selections directed towards se- 
curing for seed use the yield of the best individual seed, as deter- 
mined by cropping, offers promise of gain in the improvement of 
seed wheat. In further support of this view, we may note that in 
the various series, B D to J, the selection being from the heads 
alone, no gain was secured in the number of breasts upon the heads 
harvested : in Series A and C, the selection from the best heads from 
the best plant, the original eighteen breasts were changed to twenty- 
two. 
From Series A and C, two plants were selected from which seed 
was to be saved for next year’s crop. ‘The statistics of the plants 
are as below : 
A 118, the head was froma stool of seventeen heads, the product of 
the eighteenth seed from the base of the head which furnished the stool. 
A 116, the head was from a stool of sixteen heads, the product of 
the thirty-first seed from the base of the head which furnished the 
stool. 
C 125, the head was from a stool of twenty-four heads, the product 
of the ninth seed from the base of the head which furnished the stool. 
CHARACTER OF THE SELECTED HFaps. 
| Planted Sept. 
22, 1884 
* > No plants 
4 No. of growing | 
; No of seedin Oct. 20, 
Station No. breasts. the head. 1884. 
ema Lorie oe oe Ss Sia) ci Wiel ew eo 3ce at 22, 63 20 
RMN MNT A CE: Sls tales Sipharcta: 6 acvkk) area 22 65 22, 
ee See eee 29 60 26 
OL CESS Se Cir ai per Oe Sr ane Dag 18 50 26 
Re: Sar DON eee ea dey an 21 50 36 
LOR CoB Cae ee ee ene ae re tie aRe eis 22 51 25 
“gas SS RiGee eae, hee ar i ea 25 61 23 
re Sa ak Se 29 66 AB 
Baa hatin cis ado Mol noe 21 50 25 
PAA ORS oe Peo eis gaara bs 21 65 46 
Rae sg MIE ASG i SY A gm Ney gre Oe 23 62 22 
nF SURE ty a Tag ee AR a a poe 20 55 29 
i i re eer. 23 33 93 
Yah RRS Red £5 6) 3h OI er Tame 21 31 Le 
See. OLESEN. dnd Oca *20 18 17 
RVSRHERRS +) on i, STs, RNC! SR Ae ga 19 24 17 
WP Se ors FP SING 0 ches wg? WE kos wt poo Sak Lacan 34 30 
2 GRASBe babi wena snore 14 33 22 
