NRS-207 | Card registers relating to grain trials

Full description

These card registers record grain trials conducted by various Research Stations. Trials concern fodder crops as a group, and others relate to specific grains and varieties such as rye, wheat, barley and oats. There are series of trials relating to either early or late sown wheat varieties.

The cards are arranged alphabetically by Research Station. Each Research Station holds cards divided by subject such as experiments, harvesting and planting, annual sowings and results, and statistical analyses registering sowings and yields over several decades.

There is a series of cards relating to farmers' experiment plots

(11/10649-56). 8 boxes.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.