The Farmers Guide Or a Treatise On the Improvement of Wheat
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123 52 "Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the "tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold. "The following table gives similar increased contents of ear obtained in three other varieties of wheat: Varieties of Wheat. '*"" cC S'O I 1 Original Red commenced in 1857, 45 123 6 124 60 114 Golden Drop, commenced in 1864, _ __ - 32 96 "It was supposed by the ancient writers that the pow- ers of grains differed i...n relation to their position in the ear. This I investigated in 1858 by planting the grains of ten ears on a plan showing their several positions in the ear. The only general result, among most conflicting ones, was that the smallest corns those most remote from the center of growth exhibited throughout, most unexpectedly, a vig- or equal to Jhat of the largest; and that the remarked worst grains, in one or two instances, did not by any means fall so far short of the good ones as had been expected.
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