Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-08-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRI-
CULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station Plants seventy-five Va
rieties of fWheat-What the
Results Indicate.

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Results Indicate.
Seventy-fve 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 about one rod wide by SIX
teen rods long, and we're arranged in
two tiers on q tract Of bottom land.
To guard against the errors arising
from lack Of uniformity in the soil,
twenty mine duplicate plots of one va
riety, Velvet Chat (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 Chaff between
which it lay. 1t is practically impos-
sible in an experiment of this kind to
secure exactly the same yield from
two adjoining lots of land, however
similarly they may be in appearance,
owing to the unavoidable errors that
creep in seeding, harvesting and
threshing. We consider that a diff
ference In yield between two plots OF
six Lounds. or a bushel to the acre, is
quite within the limits of probable
error, and that under most circum-
stances it is not safe to base any con-
clusions upon a smaller difference
than two bushels or more, unless such
difference be confirmed by duplica'
ton.
The average yield of the 20 plots OF
Velvet Chaff was 25.4 bushels, ranging
from 22& to 2S4 bushels. The great
est variation between neighboring
plots of Velvet was q bushels, while
the mean variation was IL bushel.
Were 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 the Velvet Chaff; Valley, and its
synonym Reliable; Golden Cross and
American Bronze Synonyms OF Diehl-
Mediterranean; Tuscan Island, Fultz
and Rocky Mountain (synonyms);
Gypsy, Early Red Clawson, Jones
Winter Flte, Sones Square Head and
Rudy.
The following twelve varieties
yielded two to four bushels more than
Velvet Chaff: CurreIl's Prolific; Deitz;
Diehl- Mediterranean; Early Ripe;
Egyptian; Geneva; Niger; Oregon;
Royal Australian Synonym Of Claw
sony; Tasmanian Red Synonym of
Mediterranean; Wyandot Red.
The following thirty-four sorts
gave practically the same yield as
Velvet Chaff: Badger; Big English;
Crate: Democrat; Everitt's High
Grade; Extra Early Oakley; Fairfield;
Fulcaster; Fultz Blue Stem; German
Emperor Synonym of Red Fultz);
Golden Prolific, Hickman; Improved
Rice; Lehigh; Longberry; Martins
Amber and Landreth (both synonyms
of Silver Chaff) ;Mealy; Mediterranean;
Miami Valley; Missouri Blue Stem;
Poole; Red Brazilian; Red Fultz; Red
Russian; Russian Red; Sibley's New
Golden (synonym of Mediterranean);
Silver Chaff; Surprise; Thesis; Wis
consln Triumph; Witter; Yellow
Gypsy; Yuba.
The following ten sorts fell from
two to four bushels below Velvet
Chaff in weld: Beal, Bearded Mon
arch, Hindostan, New Monarch, On
tario Wonder, Red Wabash Ruehlen,
Sheriff, Stewart, Willitts.
The following six sorts fell more
than, four bushels below Velvet Chaff
Bailey johnson, Lebanon, Mlller's
Prolific, New Michigan Ambea, Rob-
erts.
Judging from the experience OF this
and former years, we recommend the
following sorts of wheat as probably
the safest for general culture through
out Ohio: Valley, Fultz, Velvet Chat
Penquite's), Egyptian and Niger
Diehl- Mediterranean, ,underits various
| names, has given good yields on thl'
farm and in favored localities, bu
can not be recommended for genera
culture, and that same may be said o
Martins Amber, and its synonyms
Landreth and Silver Chat. Rudy
Deitz, Poole, Currell's Prolific, Early
Red Clawson, Hicks and Jones Win
ter fire are worthy Of further trial.