DEY-LAND GRAINS IN THE GREAT BASIN. 35 



MISCELLANEOUS DATA. 

 NURSERY WORK. 



Tlic nursery work at the sul)statioii at Ncphi, Utah, consists prin- 

 cipally of three classes of tests: (1) The trying out of a large number 

 of varieties and strains of crops the seed of which has been obtained 

 from foreign countries and from different parts of the United States. 

 This seed is planted in rows and grown for the purpose of studying the 

 behavior of the plants under the conditions existing at Nephi and of 

 determining whether or not the crop or variety is adapted or adapt- 

 able to the dry-land conditions. (2) The testing of plant selections 

 made from tiio cr()|)s on the substation plats. This" includes the 

 determination of sui)erior plants and the purification of varieties 

 through the separation of types. Superior strains discovered in the 

 nursery will be increased and tested in the plats under actual field 

 conditions, and the seed of the best will ultimately be distributed to 

 the farmers. (3) Miscellaneous experiments (tests of different sizes 

 of seed, treatment of seed for smut prevention, etc.). 



Tlie nursery work was not started until the spring of 1908 and so 

 far only preliminary results have been obtained. These have been 

 extremely encouraging, but it is thought that their publication at 

 this time is unwarranted. For this reason only a numerical summary 

 of the work under way is given in Table X. 



Table X. — Number and character of tests of various crops, conducted in the nursery at 



Nephi, Utah, during 1909. 



In the fall of 1909 the nursery work with winter grains was very 

 much increased, and most of the nurser}^ work wdth grain will here- 

 after be confined to the winter varieties, as these, as shown earlier 

 in these pages, are of greater importance than the spring varieties in 

 the Mountain States. 



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