WHEAT GROWING.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 4

WHEAT GROWING.

THE BEST VARIETIES. WORK AT LINCOLN COLLEGE. Tuscan is the best wheat on all light and medium wheat ground. Hunters is the best on all heavy lands. Garnet is payable only when sown very late on heavy soil, or on lighter soil if the spring is wet. Wo other variety should be 'considered for Canterbury conditions. The . possibilities of Yeoman on dairy land in Canterbury and of Garnet and Solid Straw Velvet in Otago are still worth investigation. > The above statements are set out in a report which was before the meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College held at Lincoln yesterday. "We can confidently say that to farmers," the report says, commenting upon them. The College and the Wheat Besearch Institute are working in close co-opera-tion on the experimental field, while

the Pure Seed Station, and the Crop Experimental Division of the Department of Agriculture are also co-opera-ting with the College in the work of testing and producing commercial supplies of improved wheats, the report states. The special part of the College in the train of work is the testing of new varieties on . the intermediate scale, and the growing of the first commercial crops of any improved seed, threshing it, and dressing it with its own machines, so as to distribute pure seed to farmers. Simplifying « lnstructions. The plots of the "Wheat Eesearch Institute in the College field numbered 9400, and these were all harvested in good condition. Of these the drill sown trials, numbering between 300 and 400, vrere cut and threshed by the College plant. The variety trials again showed that none of. the recent introductions has any hope of replacing Tuscan for general purposes, though Solid Straw Velvet may be used in Otago, Garnet for October sowing on heavy soil, and Yeoman for winter sowing on dffiry land. The variety trials have now proceeded far enough to allow us to eliminate several varieties with confider.ee, and this is a distinct step in advance, as it simplifies all instructions to farmers, as well as simplifying the work of feed raisins