PLANT BREEDING.
In a paper recently read by Professor Hood before the London Farmers' Club, on "Hereditary in Farm Animals," he touched upon the subject of plant breeding. His colleagues, Professor Biffen, had been working for years at the improvement of the wheat plant. The English varieties of wheat, though they were excelient croDpers, Droduced "sweak" flour, and were rather susceptible to fungoid diseases, such as rust. On the other hand, the Red Fife wheat of Canada produced "very strong" flour, and the American Club wheat had remained rust proof for eight years in England. By crossing the English varieties of wheat with Red Fife wheat he had produced a npw variety which "combined English cropping power with Canadian baking strength."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 439, 14 February 1912, Page 3
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121PLANT BREEDING. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 439, 14 February 1912, Page 3
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