GRAFTED WHEAT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7862, 18 May 1886, Page 6

GRAFTED WHEAT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, Yesterday, -when reading over some notes headed “ Science of the Day,” published in an Australian paper, I came across, and read with interest, the following article on grafted wheat, and thinking that it may interest a large number of your subscribers, especially the farmers and landowners, I proceeded at once to copy it, and ask you to publish it, so that it may be more widely known and its merits or demerits discussed : “M. Galbiati, of Milan, has just published an account of some very interesting experiments in agriculture, which promise valuable results. He has tried the effect of grafting one seed on another, his chief experiments being with wheat and maize. He inserted grains of wheat into grains of maize, and then sowed them very carefully, seed by seed. According to his account, the young wheat makes a splendid start owing to the nutriment which it extracts from the maize. He has devised a machine for inserting the one seed into the other. An Agricultural Society took up his idea, 'and sowed one field with his grafted wheat and another with ordinary wheat, and treated them both alike. Everything allowed for, the profit on the grafted wheat was four times that on the other.”— I am, &c., H. W. PEEYMAN, Lavington Farm, Tai Tapu.