NEW BLEND OF WHEAT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8921, 14 September 1907, Page 4

NEW BLEND OF WHEAT.

The Agricultural Department of the University of Cambridge has succeeded in producing a fixed-type of wheat which will combine the strength of Canadian and other foreign wheats with tire free-grow-ing qualities of the English varieties. Professor Wood, head of the Department, explained the process to the Association of Directors and Secretaries of Education on a recent Saturday at the University farm at Impingtou. The British labourer, it appears, though he has the producing of home-grown cereals, is at one with the town artisan in that he will no longer purchase bread made from the flour of English wheat, which has neither the colour nor the quality of the product of foreign or mixed wheat.

The wheat the department has produced at Impiugton was sent to a miller to grind and report upon without any clue as to its identity. He reported his belief that ho was dealing with some of the finest quality of Canadian wheiat. A baker similarly reported as to the flour.

Professor Wood is confident that lie has found what the British agriculturist requires, and is growing it in bulk for seed corn, but it will be several years before it can be put on the market in any quantities. Considerable progress has also been made in experiments to combat with well-known diseases among Britishgrown crops, roots as well as careals.

The experiments have been in hand about six years.