CANADIAN WHEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 7

CANADIAN WHEAT

NEW RUST RESISTING STRAIN

WINNIPEG. A new Canadian rust-resisting wheat which has been developed at the Dominion Rust Research Laboratories here, has been named “Regent’’ in honour of the visit to Canada this summer of their Majesties thd King and Queen. The new wheat has been found to be resistant to stem rust as well as to leaf rust and smut. There are now 12,000 bushels of the new Regent wheal seed available for distribution to Canadian wheat growers and the demand already exceeds the supply. Orders have been received by the Govern ■ ment from hundreds of Canadian wheat farmers, most of the letters arriving by the new air-mail service which has been recently inaugurated across the Dominion. These facts not only indicate the progressive nature of Canadian wheat farmers in desiring to have a supply of this newly developed wheat seed but also their air-mindedness in making use of the air mails in placing their requests be fore the proper authorities. A limit of four bushels per farmer has been placed in the distribution of the new wheat in an attempt to make it available in as many districts aJ possible. The new Regent variety of wheat is a beardless, white-chaffed variety with a strong stem. It has shown up so well in yield and appearance as well as in quality that samples of it were sent to England a few months ago to be subjected to exacting commercial milling' tests. These tests disclosed. Regent to be well up to all expectations.