RUST-RESISTANT WHEAT

Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 9

RUST-RESISTANT WHEAT

CANADIAN EXPERIMENTS WINNIPEG, May 30. .At a meeting of scientists at Winnipeg it was announced that such progress had been made in the production of a riist-resistant wheat that steps had been taken to produce an adequate amount of the new varieties to permit commercial milling tests this autumn. These will be made as an additional safeguard to wheat producers, and it is considered likely that distribution of the new varieties will be possible in 1935. The announcement indicates that the work begun in 1925 is now coming to a successful conclusion. Scientists of the National Research Council of the Universities of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, . and Alberta, of the Department of Agriculture, and of the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory, have co-operated in the work, which lias consisted of elaborate crossing and recrossing of numerous strains of wheat in order to discover a variety which would combine high protein content, good milling quality, and resistance to black rust, which has been the cause of millions of dollars of loss to western farmers for more than twenty years.