REPORT OF MR. W. H. FAIRFIELD 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



455 



Eleven varieties of six-row and ten varieties of two-row barley were grown on 

 summer-fallowed land. They were all sown April 19 at the rate of a little less than one 

 bushel and three pecks per acre. 



Sis-Row Barley (non-irrigated) — Test of Varieties. 



Name 



of 

 Variety. 



Date 



of 



Ripening 



No. of 

 Days 

 Matur- 

 ing. 



1 Claude [ Aug, 



2 Mansfield. . . 



3 Odessa .... 



4 Mensury. . . . 



5 Stella 



6 1 Albert 



7 

 8 

 9 



10 

 11 



Nugent 



Yale 



Trooper 



Oderbruch 



O.A.C. No. 21. 



Averagt 

 Length 



of Straw 

 includ- 

 ing 

 Head. 



Inches. 



ofStalwk v< 



on a scale 



of Straw T TC 

 ™ „ H «,lJ Length 

 of 

 Head, 



of 10 

 points . 



Inches. 



2f 

 2| 

 3£ 



4~ 

 3* 

 4 

 4 



3* 



Yield 



of 

 Grain 



per 

 Acre. 



Lbs. 



570 

 480 

 000 

 510 

 390 

 3G0 

 300 

 420 

 450 

 360 

 570 



Yield 



of 



Grain 



per Acre 



Bu. Lbs. 



11 42 

 10 .. 



12 24 

 10 30 



8 6 



21 

 12 

 36 

 18 

 24 



11 42 



Weight 



per 



measured 



bushel 



after 



cleaning. 



Lbs. 



448 



48-1 



455 



45 



485 



454 



386 



48 



39 9 



405 



40 



Average 



Yield for 



three 



years. 



Bush. Lbs. 



36 

 33 

 30 

 26 

 26 

 26 

 25 

 24 

 24 

 23 



8 

 32 

 26 

 38 

 37 

 32 

 15 

 31 



4 

 46 



Two-Row Baulky (non-irrigated) — Test of Varieties. 



