Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-20
RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRIOUL-
TURAL EXPERIMENTS.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Plants Seventy-iivc Varieties of whcnt
What the Results Indicate.


The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Plants Seventy-fvc Varieties of Wheat
What the Results Indicate.
Sovcnty-fivc differently named sorts
of wheat have been grown this season
by the Ohio Experiment station in
plots of one-tenth acre each. These
plots we're one rod wide by sixteen rods
long, and were arranged in two tiers
on tract of bottom land. To guard
against the errors arising from the
lack of uniformity in the soil, twenty
nine duplicate plots of one variety,
Velvet Chaff (Penquite's Velvet), were
sown at intervals of three or five plots,
and in the following statement each
variety has been compared with the
plots of Velvet Chaif between which it
lay. 1t is practically impossible in an
experiment of this kind to secure ex-
actly the same yield from two adjoin-
ing lots of land, however similar they
may be in appearance, owing to the
unavoidable errors that creep in, in
seeding, harvesting and threshing.
We consider that difference in yield
between Two plots of six pounds or II
bushel to the acre, is quite within the
limits of probable error, and that un-
der most circumstances it is not safe
to base any conclusions upon Il smaller
difference than two bushels or more,
unless such difference be confirmed by
duplication.
The average yield of the 20 plots of
Velvet Chatf was 25.4 bushels. ranging
from 224 to 2S! bushels. The greatest
variation between neighboring plots of
Velvet was 24 bushels, while the llean
variation was IL bushel. Where the
variation exceeded this mean there
were evident variations in the soil.
In this experiment the following
twelve varieties yielded at the rate of
four to five bushels per acre more than
theVelvetChatf; Valley and its synonym,
Reliable; Golden Cross and American
Bronze synonyms of Diehl-Mediter-
ranean); Tuscan Island, Fultz and
Rocky Mountain (synonyms); Gypsy,
EARLY Red Clawson, Jones' Winter
Fife, Jones Square Head and Rudy.
The following twelve varieties yield
cd two to four bushels more than Vel
vet Chaif; Currells Prolific; Deitz:
Diehl- Mediterranean: Early Ripe:
Egyptian; Geneva: Niger; Oregon;
Royal Australian (synonym of Clawson)
Tasmanian Red synonym of Mediter-
ranean): Wyandot Red.
The following thirty-four sorts gave
practically the same yield us Velvet
Chatf; Badger; Big English: Crate;
Democrat; Everitt's High grade; EX-
ira EARLY Odkly; Fairfield; Fulcuster;
Fultz Blue Stem; German Emperor
| tsyuouym of Red Fultz); Golden Pro.
life; Hickman; Improved Rice; LIE.
high; Longberry; Martins Amber
and Landreth tboth synonyms of Silver
Chatf); Nlcaly; Mediterranean; Miami
Valley; Missouri Blue Stem; Poole
Red Brazilian; Red Fultz: Red Rus
sian; Russian Red; Sibley's New
Golden Synonym OF Mediterranean)
Silver Chatf; Surprise; Theiss; Wi
eonsin Triumph; Witter; yellow
Gypsy; Yuba.
The following ten sorts fell from tw,
to four bushels below Velvet Chaif il
yielu. beal, bcurueu MOnarcn, dln
dostan, New Monarch, Ontario Won
der, Red Wabash, Ruehlen, Sheriff
Stewart, Willitts.
The following six sorts fell NOR
than four bushels below Velyet Chafl
Bailey, Johnson, Lebanon, Miller
Prolific, New Michigan Amber, Rot
erts.
Judging from the experience of thi
and former years, we recommend TIL
following sorts of wheat as probabl
the safest for general culture through
out Ohio: Valley, Fultz, Velvet Cha1
I (Penquite'sl, Egyptian and bigger
D;ehl-Mediterranean, under its variou
names. has given good yields on thi
farm and in favored localities, but can
not be recommended for general cul
ture, and the same may be said of Mar
tins Amber, and it's synonyms, Land
reth and SILVER Chatf. Rudy, Deit2
Poole, Currell's Prolific, EARLY Re
Clawson, Hicks and jones' Winter Fiji
are worthy of further trial.
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