TESTS TO BE MADE
CANADIAN PERENNIAL WHEAT
(■Received December 29, 1.30 p.m.)
OTTAWA, December 28.
What the discovery of perennial wheat means to the farmer will be tested by plant breeders on the Government experimental farms. They declare that it is possible that the farmer may be able to sow a field with seed and reap harvests year after year without again sowing. It is more likely that the outcome will be new forage crops which may restore to productive use large droughtrstricken areas.
An Ottawa cable published yesterday stated that the Dominion Experimental Farms recently developed a perennial wheat which is not expected ever to be suitable for bread but may be valuable as a forage crop and may restore to productive use large areas of drought-ravaged Western Canada!
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 7
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130TESTS TO BE MADE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 7
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