WHEAT EXPERIMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10619, 26 April 1912, Page 4

WHEAT EXPERIMENTS.

11l- cui a-ritx']& deaii-iig wMi tlie various varieties ttf wheat tested at the Marton experimental plots, Mr G. de S, Bay lis, .Agricu'ifaral -Instnictor, &.ay«: "I am incKn d to think that, in. a normiall season iai the Marton. district, and probably in the Wairarapa also, many of the varkitie-s' usually sown shouM 'nj reality- ,tnike a for llbngtfr 'period, to reach the stage at 'Which tlie grain should start .to .ripen than- our normal climatic conditions allow them between the date of somewflia't Ifato spring.'sowing and" iSie •ooninvMicesment of the dry se'as&n of late summer o; early autumn, when a. diminution o,f the irpieture contained in the soil forces all such plants to* mature their seeds, the plaits are cmnpfttoly developed or only sufficiently developed to render. it passible for them to ibfe seed hearing;. 1 at;i convinced that this etn.t« of fillings happens far more in tthe North Island tlian. is generally supposed, and tKat, to >a considerable. extent', it in t'he oause of tihe ''light" crops, ' "shrivelfled grains, and "poor Quality samples" of wlucih «> anuch is heard amiottig North Island growers. To a j great' exlt'ent the remedy lies, when spring fiowdng, in the selection, of a variety wlliioh will not require a great- j er number of 'growing days' in- a nor- j info! seaeon than illiere usually are j in jbTifl.t d'i strict between' sowing and j 'reaching tflie eitiigo at wQiddh the. grain J s's well filled and starts to ripen."