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EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



TWO-ROWED VARIETIES. 



Adjoining the one-twentieth acre plots of oats was a similar series of plots of 

 barley, all sown the same day. The particulars as to the character of the soil and 

 its preparation are given under " Experiments with Oats." The barley plots 

 consisted of 26 two-rowed varieties and 19 six-rowed ; in rotation of crop thev 

 followed oats. 



Test of Varieties of Barley, all sown same day. 



Varieties. 



Beardless 



Besthorns 



Duckbill 



Danish Chevalier 



Danish Printice Chevalier 



Dutch 



Early Minting 



Goldthorpe (resembles Duckbill) . 



Golden Melon 



Italian (resembles Duckbill) 



Kinver Chevalier 



Golden Grains (Webb) 



New Zealand 



Odessa (twc-rowed) 



Prize Prolific 



Peacock (resembles Duckbill) . . . . 



Peerless White 



Prolific 



Phoenix Von Thalen 



Rice or Fan 



Saale 



(Selected Chevalier 



Sharpe's Improved Chevalier . . . 



Swedish 



Thanet 



Large Two-rowed Naked 



Date 



of 



Sowing. 



April 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 

 28. 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Aug. 11. 

 do 12. 



11. 

 12. 



do 



do 



do 



do 7. 



do 10. 



do 13. 



do 

 do 

 do 



11. 



5. 

 12. 



do 12. 



do 6. 



July 31 



..'Aug. 12. 



..i do 9. 



. ! do 11. 

 . .! do 

 ..' do 

 .. do 



6. 



4. 



4. 



do 12. 

 do 8 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



9. 



10. 



9 



3 



Number of 



Days 

 Matiu'ing. 



105 

 106 

 100 

 105 

 106 

 101 

 104 

 107 

 105 



99 

 106 

 106 

 100 



94 

 106 

 103 

 105 

 100 



98 



98 

 106 

 102 

 103 

 104 

 103 



97 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



34 



46 



41 

 49 

 41 

 42 

 49 

 43 

 49 

 42 

 32 

 42 

 31 

 33 

 43 

 37 

 38 

 54 

 34 

 47 

 41 

 43 

 48 

 41 

 27 



28 



28 



40 

 30 

 44 

 24 

 28 

 40 

 36 

 36 

 32 

 04 

 10 

 18 

 20 

 2 

 10 

 32 

 20 

 20 

 24 

 16 

 16 

 40 

 26 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 



53 



52i 



52 



52i 



52 



52 



52^ 



51J 

 52^ 

 53| 

 52§ 



53;}: 



53 



.52i 



52| 



53i 



53i 



492 



51 



52i 



52i 



53i 



52i 



60^ 



The Duckbill hai'ley was, unfortunately, lost after threshing, before it was 

 weighed ; hence we have no record of the j'ield of that variety. The Duckbill, Gold- 

 thorpe, Italian and Peacock resemble each other very much. They have the headt^ 

 nearly erect, like wheat, and usually stand up well. The Rice or Fan has a similar 

 habit, but the head is short and spreading. All the other sorts are of the Chevalier 

 type, with long pendant heads, for which reason they are more liable to lodge. 



Larger Field Plots. 

 .*> 



Danish Chevalier. — On sandy loam mixed with olay ; manured in the spring of 

 1890; sown with peas and ploughed under in 1890; ploughed again in the autumn 

 of 1890, and disc harrowed in the spring of 1891 ; 2| acres; sown 1st May, 2 bushels 

 per acre ; ripe 12th August; time to mature, 103 days; yield per acre, 43 bushels 41 

 lbs. ; weight per bushel, 49^ lbs.; length of liead, .3| to 4 inches ; straw 2^ to 3 feet 

 long, standing fairl}' Avell. 



Danish Printice Chevalier. — On sandy loam mixed with peat; manured in the 

 spring of 1890; ploughed in the autumn of 1890 and disc harrowed in the spring of 

 1891 ; -I acre ; sown 1st May, 2 bushels per acre ; ripe 18th August ; time 



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