DEY-LAND GRAINS IN THE GREAT BASIN, 



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was one of the varieties grown before 1007, it havinjj; been grown at 

 the substation since 1904. Its yield, which has been the highest of 

 the varieties tested, is given in Table IV in comparison with the yields 

 of the Koffoid and the Gold Coin, the two most widely grown varieties 

 ill the Great Basin area. 



Table IV. — Average yield to the acre of the Turkey, Koffoid, and Gold Coin varieties of 

 • v:heat grown at Nephi, Utah, from 1904 to 1909. 



Years tested. 



1901-190i> average". 

 1907-1909 averune . , 

 Six-year average . . . 



Turkey 

 (G. I. No. 



2998). 



Bushels. 

 24. 9(i 

 30.40 

 27.70 



Koffoid. 



Bushels. 



18.25 

 28.18 

 23.23 



(5old Coin. 



Bushels. 

 1.'). 09 

 25.53 

 20.39 



a Bulletin 100, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Table IV shows that the Turkey variety has averaged decidedly 

 better than either tlie Koffoid or the Gold Coin during the past six 

 years. The superiority of this variety has been most strikingly evi- 

 dent in comparatively unfavorable seasons. Wlien there has been 

 an abundance of rainfall during the growing season its yield has not so 

 far exceeded that of the Koffoid or the Gold Coin. In 1907, when the 

 seasonal rainfall was admirably distributed, June receiving 1.58 

 inches, it yielded 37.70 bushels per acre. The Koffoid in the same 

 year protluced 38.20 bushels per acre. During all the other years the 

 Turkey has led all the varieties. The results with the variety test 

 indicate strongly that for conditions similar to those at Nephi the 

 Turkey wheat is the best of the 60 varieties on trial. 



Description of Turkey wheat. — The Turkey is a hard red winter 

 wheat, belonging to a class of wheats introduced into the United 

 States from the Crimean district of Russia. It grows at Nephi to a 

 height of about 30 to 35 inches; it has very little foliage, a slender, 

 medium stiff straw, a yellowish- white chaff, and moderately long, 

 soft awns or beards. The quality is of the best, and up-to-date 

 millers now show it a strong preference. Farmers who have always 

 grown beardless wheats fi-equently object to Turkey on account of 

 its beards, but the importance of this objection is greatly exaggerated. 

 The farmers of Kansas produce annually 70,000,000 bushels of wheat 

 of this class aiul will grow no other. They do not regard the beards as 

 a serious objection when the superior quality and yielding power of 

 the variety are considered. 



SPRING WHEATS. , 



Although, as already shown, it is not ordinarily advisable to grow 

 spring wheats in the ^Mountain States, there are sometimes conditions 

 which may prevent a farmer from getting his winter wheat planted 



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