EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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Twenty pounds of each of these barleys were sent to each of the places 

 represented by small dots in Figure 1, fall of 1914, including three tests 

 in the Upper Peninsula. Between six and seven acres of each of these 

 barleys were also planted at the College. The yield was 59.3 bushels 

 per acre from the Michigan Winter and 50.3 bushels from Derr Winter 

 in 1915. The three-year average has already been given (Table 1). The 

 results are best seen in Figure 1. 



Fig. 4. 



WEATHER CONDITIONS. 



The season of 1915 was abnormal in being cold and rainy during July, 

 August and September. It was so wet in some sections that farmers 

 had a hard time to gather their crops at all, especially the small grains. 

 The harvest of winter barley escaped this wet weather, as it was ripe and 

 could easily be housed before the rain set in. 



After harvest the ground almost everywhere was so wet that it could 

 not be plowed in season. This fact together with the fact that corn and 

 beans could not be harvested until about October 1st put off the prepara- 

 tion of land for winter crops until late September or early October. 

 Much of the land that had been intended for fall crops was not planted, 

 and what was planted Avas either poorly prepared, planted entirely too 

 late, or both. 



The winter of 1915-1916 was unusually hard on fall crops ]>artly (and 

 in many cases mainly) because of the short growth and poor root develop- 



