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Bulletin 84 



T.NP.LE LVL VARIETY TEST OF OATS, PRESCOTT DRY-EARM 



1 — ^Winter killed. 2 — Destroyed by prairie dogs. 3 — Disced Aug. 15. 4 — Disced 

 Sept. 18. 5 — Killed by drought in June. 



Barley: One plot of Six Row barley was planted May 14, 1912, 

 and yielded forty-eight pounds of grain per acre (see Table LVII). 

 One plot each of Six Row and White Hulless barley, planted in 

 the fall of 1912, failed to survive the winter. 



In 1913, Black Hulless, Mansury, and Six Row barley were 

 planted early in April, but all were destroyed by drought. 



The test in 1914 included Six Row, Black Hulless, White Hull- 

 ess, Oderbrucker, Utah Winter, and Mansury barley, all of which 

 failed, the greatest yield, forty pounds of grain per acre, coming 

 from the Utah Winter plot. 



In 1915 Utah Winter and Black Hulless barley were planted, 

 the former producing 200 pounds of grain per acre. 



There is little likelihood of barley withstanding the open win- 

 ters of the Prescott vicinity, and, when planted in spring, it is apt 

 to be destroyed by drought. Therefore, it is improbable that bar- 

 ley ever will become an important dry-farm crop of the region. 



Rye: A plot of rye planted in November, 1911, yielded at the 

 late of 180 pounds of grain per acre. Spring rye in 1913 yielded no 



