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EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT
WINTER WHEAT TRIALS

In general winter wheat is not dependable in western North Dakota. The amount of winter wheat grown in North Dakota is relatively small but because much of it has been grown in the Slope region it has received considerable attention at the Dickinson Experiment Station. The winter wheat nurseries grown at the Dickinson Experiment Station are part of a regional testing program and the trial at Dickinson is particularly desirable because of the severity of the winter in this area.

In the 1952 trials a Kharkof selection averaged twenty percent survival followed by the original Kharkof with eleven percent survival and Minturki with nine percent survival. Five percent of the Turkey x Oro cross survived at Dickinson and four percent of the variety Minter survived. The rest of the entries in both the Uniform Winterhardiness Nursery and the Supplementary Winterhardiness Nursery survived less than three percent with the majority of the entries killing out entirely.

A summary of the survival data on the entries in both nurseries is presented in tables 28 and 29.

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