IMPROVED WHEAT-SEED.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XX, Issue 3, 20 March 1920, Page 208

IMPROVED WHEAT-SEED.

For the last ten years the authorities at Lincoln College, Canterbury, have been giving attention to the improvement of the different kinds of wheat commonly grown in New Zealand, and have distributed some strains which show considerable improvement over the commercial seed. The variety known as College Hunters or Red Chaff has now almost completely replaced the old Hunters grown five years ago, and a prolonged tour in mid-Canterbury did not reveal a single crop of this variety that was not grown from College seed. More recently improved strains of Pearl, Solid-straw Tuscan, and Purple-straw Tuscan have been distributed, and these have in nearly every case shown superiority over the old seed. To keep up the supply of seed of these strains a Canterbury Seed-growers’ Association was formed, and it has on hand seed of the varieties mentioned, each bag of which bears a certificate that it was inspected while growing, is true to name, relatively pure, and free from noxious weeds. Growers desiring seed of these strains should send applications early to Dr. F. W. Hilgendorf, Lincoln College, via Christchurch, who is acting as honorary secretary to the association.