A NEW WHEAT.
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The thousand-dollar prize awarded in Aew Tor!; City recently for the he=t wheat KTOwn on the X w th Aniprican continent, winch was teeumd by „ Saskatchewan tnrincr. was won by .Marquis wheat. Marrniis wheat is one of a number of varieties which have been produced at Ihp Government experimental farm, at Ottawa by a crossing of Red Fife with various imported wheats of early ripenim: habit. The onrlv inaturin- parents- of Marquis was Hani lied Calcutta, obtained from India Tt was isolated by Dr. SaimdeTs, the DomiV loii cerealist, by selection, in 1903. After bo.njr grown for three years at Ottawa, linking tests were made fr.mi Ihe crnn of Willi, which showed Hint. Marquis stands in Ihe first rank for baking strenath. This wheat was tlibn transferred to the experimental rami at Tntlian Head for te<r« iin-te-fs in the fi.'ld. Jhi-miis eave 4i bushel': per acre, while in ISO!) and 1310 five-acre His at Indian Hean yielded more H, nn 50 busacls an acre.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 8
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169A NEW WHEAT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 8
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