Report Of The Select Standing Committee On Agriculture And Colonization Third Session Twelfth Parliament 1914

Author : Parliament Of Canada
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364920770
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization written by Parliament Of Canada and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization: First Session, Eleventh Parliament, 1909 A. The experience of one man is often different from that of another. We often get letters saying I have been here three or four years and have had three cr0ps out of four of Red Fife injured, can you not send us something that will ripen earlier? We try and help such men by sending them some sort that is almost, if not quite, as good, and earlier in ripening. Q. And when the frost comes as it did in 1906 early in August, we have not yet got any wheat that will be early enough? A. Well, the returns we had from some of the earlier varieties were' exceedingly interesting at that time. They showed that Red Fife in some instances would not grade at all. The earlier varieties were so much further advanced that although they graded low, still they brought considerably more money than could be got for Red Fife. This is a very complicated subject. We are just as keen and careful as any millers, or any other body of men, to preserve the character and quality of our grain unin jured in the eyes 'of foreign purchasers, and we are not distributing anything that will materially interfere with that. We have selection and cross-bred sorts-where the qual ity is nearly or quite equal to Red Fife. Among these is an improved Red Fife quite equal to ordinary Red Fife and ripens several days earlier. I have here another wheat one of our cross-bred which was grown at Lesser Slave Lake, and weighs 65 lbs. To the bushel. In that respect it is superior to Red Fife, but is not quite so strong. This is a white skinned wheat and that is a great disadvantage under our present law regu lating the grading of wheat; white skinned sorts do not usually bring the same price as red skinned sorts even though they be better wheat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.