. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. ii6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMLNT STATION. I903. 6315. Blue Stem Wheat. This was also obtained from Professor Hays. It was grown in Minnesota from seed intro- duced over 20 years before from North Dakota. This is one of the superior hard wheats of Minnesota. A crop from this seed was grown by John H. W^ark of Washburn, from which sample 6435 ^v^s selected. A considerable amount of grain of the two varieties last named which had been purchased by Mr. Phair for seed remained
. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. ii6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMLNT STATION. I903. 6315. Blue Stem Wheat. This was also obtained from Professor Hays. It was grown in Minnesota from seed intro- duced over 20 years before from North Dakota. This is one of the superior hard wheats of Minnesota. A crop from this seed was grown by John H. W^ark of Washburn, from which sample 6435 ^v^s selected. A considerable amount of grain of the two varieties last named which had been purchased by Mr. Phair for seed remained unsold and was ground at Mr. Phair's mill at Washburn. At the same time samples of grain grown in Aroostook county from this seed were also ground. Opportunity was thus furnished for comparing not only the wheats themselves but the resulting flours. Fig. 53. BLUE STEM WHEAT, SHOWING CHANGES IX SIZE AND SHAPE OF KERNEL BY CHANGE OF 6315. Parent, Minnesota grown. 6435. Progeny, Maine grrown. The tables on page 117 contain the results of the analyses of these grains. An examination of the first column of the table on the top of the following page shows an increase in the w^eight of the kernel in each case. With the Fife and Blue Stem the increase was very large (see accompanying illustrations), amounting to nearly 50 per cent of the seed, while the weight of the Lamona kernel (already very heavy) remained practically unchanged. The latter, however, showed a very marked decrease in protein, amounting to 21 per cent of the original. The Fife also suffered a small loss of protein, while the Blue Stem made a slight gain, too small to be of any signifi- cance. All the wheats exhibited a remarkable agreement in the heats of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Dept. of Agricu
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