variations in climatic conditions, due to location and other governing causes. The difference this season between the maximum and minimum weights of a measured bushel is seven pounds, or 11.7 per cent. of the legal weight of a measured bushel. The lightest weight was of German Emperor, (plot 40) but 56 pounds to the measured bushel, or almost seven per cent. below the legal weight in Ohio. The heaviest was Extra Early Oakley, (plot 6), weighing 63 pounds, or five per cent. more than the standard. The light weight wheats are of poorer quality than the heavy ones; this one point, then, furnishes some clue to the quality of the grain, as very heavy wheat is not of poor quality. Wheat is often bought upon a statement of its weight, this being the sole index of the quality of the grain. The average quality of the wheat, as indicated by the weight, was not good, as it did not attain the standard of weight by seven-tenths (.7) of a pound. The quality of the grain, as judged by the appearance only, is given in the second column from the right in the table (table I). The weight and appearance of the grain were the only methods employed in determining the quality. No effort was made to determine the quality by means of a practical test under the burr. Until the test shall be made under the burr, in the oven, and also by chemical analysis, the report upon the quality of the grain can be but partial. The average yield of straw per acre was a little more than one and one-half tons. This does not include the weight of stubble, which was left four inches high; but does include the weight of "screenings" removed by the thrasher. The weight of straw is obtained by weighing the wheat in the straw and deducting from this the weight of the threshed grain. The amount of screenings is very small where the grain is free from impurities and the threshing done slowly, with a small separator, as it is at the Station. The average amount of straw left as stubble was nearly one-twelfth the total length of straw. If this were included in the weight of straw, the average weight per acre would be somewhat larger. But the quantity cut off, and included in the weights as given, is fully as great as the average amount removed in harvesting. The plot producing the least amount of straw was Raub's Black Prolific, (plot 41), the yield being a little less than a ton. This is but 64.5 per cent. of the average yield. The maximum yield of straw was obtained from Witter, (plot 38) amounting to nearly two and a half tone, (4,401 pounds), or 44.1 per cent. more than the average yield, and nearly two and one-half times the smallest yield. But, as a rule, large yields of straw are not desired. A short, stiff straw, with a large yield of grain to straw, is the combination sought. This is found, to a large degree, in the Extra Early Oakley, where the yield of straw to grain was very small this season, there having been nearly a pound of grain to every one, and one-third pounds of straw, or, more accurately, 100 |