MOLD’S ENNOBLING WHEAT.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume I, Issue 91, 3 February 1880, Page 4

MOLD’S ENNOBLING WHEAT.

On the arrival of the English creeping wheat (says the Adelaide Observer) grown by Mr’W. H. Mold, at Ashford, Kent, and known as ennobled wheat, which was sent out to the Colony from the Paris Exhibition by Mr J. Boothby, C.M.G., (TJ.S), the Hon W. H. Bundey, AttorneyGeneral, at the request of Mr Stephen Goldsworthy, of near Curramulka, Sothern Yorke’s Peninsula, obtained for him 201 b, which he sowed this season. Mr Goldsworthy’s first impressions were unfavorable to the

grain in consequence of the stalks running along the ground, or creeping, instead of standing up, and until the last few weeks he thought it would not be at all a desirable species to acclimatise. However, later, experience proved him to have been mistaken, for the wheat not only sprung upwards, but has produced some of the finest wheat that is to be seen on the Peninsula.

He has 1000 acres under crop, a patch of which is planted with the English wheat referred to above, and Mr Bundey will not be surprised if he obtains 20,000 bushels from it. In some places there appeared to be no doubt that 25 or 30 bushels would be reaped to the acre, and in the worst the yield would not be less than 15. A dozen heads of the creeping wheat, which is all to be kept for seed, were culled by Mr Bundey. It seems to have one disadvantage as compared with the ordinary kind, inasmuch as it will be behind the latter a week or ten days before it will be fit for the reaper. Some ears which were tested contained upwards of 50 per cent, more grains than the ears of other wheat.