
ming 2 . TIN es. ” PAseatiggee, 
germinative apparatus. In order to observe the per cent that escaped — 
the perils of the soil and other conditions, we counted the kernels 
planted, and those which formed plants for crop, upon plats EH. six 
and EH. seven. In E. six we had two thousand three hundred and 
seventy-six kernels, in drills; of these two thousand and nineteen 
grew, or eighty-five per cent. In E. seven we had one thousand one 
hundred and eighty-eight kernels planted ; of these one thousand and 
six grew, or eighty-four per cent. 
Calculating the variations in the number that grew in the nine rows, ~ 
we find for E. six, a variation between the greatest and least vegeta- 
tion per row of twenty-seven per cent; in E. seven, of eighteen per 
cent. 
In E. six we had two hundred and sixty-four kernels planted per 
row. ‘The greatest number which formed plants for crop was two 
hundred and forty-three or ninety-two per cent; the least one hun- 
dred and eighty-one, or sixty-eight per cent. : 
In EH. seven, we had one hundred and thirty-two kernels planted per 
row. The largest vegetation in a row was one hundred and twenty- 
two, or ninety-two per cent; the least one hundred and one, or seventy- 
six per cent. 
WHEAT. 
Through the extensive winter-killing of the wheat upon our plats, | 
and as also in the varieties planted, we must call our wheat trials of . 
this year a failure. The quality of the small crop we obtained was 
very poor, the kernels being shriveled and of light weight. 
Last year the Station secured twelve carefully selected samples of 
_ wheat of various and mostly unknown kinds, for the purpose of en- 
deavoring to obtain a new seed wheat. Hight of the twelve samples 
included kernels in the head, while four of the samples were of 
threshed wheat. The wheat obtained was of very superior appearance, 
both in the head and in the development of the kérnel. ‘These 
samples were pianted, one kernel in a place, at one foot intervals, at — 
various dates, as received and we have to note some curious facts, as 
may be further studied in a table which will be given further on. 
Number two is the Black-bearded Centennial variety ; number three 
heads of Clawson ; number ten the premium wheat at the New York ; 
State Fair of 1882. The other samples are unknown varieties. We ~~ 
must first call attention to the small number of kernels which vege- 
tated, varying from twenty-seven to ninety-eight per cent, the average 
being fifty-three per cent. If, then, but fifty-three per cent of the 
seed vegetated under the careful conditions of an experimental plat, 
we may assume that last season there must have been a far greater j 
loss in actual field culture, and we therefore have a seeming explana- =~ 
a le 
tion of the discrepancy that often appears between the quantities of 
seed recommended by experience, and that quantity which is often 
recommended by theoretical considerations. We can further see that 
heavy seeding may, in some seasons, result in thin seeding in effect. 
| By counting the plants at date, we obtain the per cent of the plants 
that survived the winter, and we find here a variation from seven to. 
ninety-five per cent, the average being fifty-four per cent. Thisigs ~ 
equivalent to saying that upon our experimental plat, under excep- 
tional care, but about one-fourth of the seeding became avatlable for. 
crop. | 

