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TABLE LVII. VARIETY TEST OF BARLEY, RYE, EMMER, AND SPELTZ, 



PRESCOTT DRY-FARM 



Variety 



Date 

 planted 



1912 



White Hulless 



barley 



Six Row barley 



Rye 



1913 



Black Hulless 



barley 



Six Row barley 



Mansury " 

 Spring rve. . . . 

 1914 

 Six Row barley 



it it a 



Black Hulless 



barley 



White Hulless 



barley 



Oderbrucker 



barley 



Utah Winter 



barley 



Mansury barley 

 Rye 



Stand 



Speltz 



Emmer 



1915 

 Utah Winter 



barlev 



Black Hulless 



barley 



Black Hulless 



barlev 



Black Winter 



emmer 



Rye 



Red Winter 

 speltz C.I.1772 



10-7 

 5-14 

 10-7 

 11-11 



4-7 



4-11 



4-11 



4-11 



3-19 



7-10 

 4-15 



4-11 



4-15 



4-11 



8-25 

 4-15 

 7-10 

 9-17 

 4-20 

 10-6 



10-12 



9-30 



10-10 



10-10 

 10-10 



10-12 



% 



85 



95 

 95 



70 



80 



Date 

 har- 

 vested 



Size 



of 



plot 



9-30 

 7-22 



8-1 

 11-7 



^28 



[1-7' 

 6-11 

 6-26 



7-21 



7-19 



A cres 



1/6 



^ 



/8 



1/40 



1/20 



1/10 

 1/20 



/8 



Va 

 1/20 



1/20 



/8 



1/9 



Yield per plot 



Yield per acre 



Grain Straw Grain 



Pounds 



12 



'36 



250 

 4 



10 



38 



Pounds 



130 



ieo 



10 



18 



60 



537 

 18 



29 



71 



Pounds 



"48 

 180 



40 



1000 

 80 



200 



342 



straw 



Pounds 



"520 

 "96U 



40 

 U4 



600 



2148 

 360 



580 



639 



l_Winter killed. 2— Disced. 3— Killed 

 5 — Failed. 6 — Destroyed by prairie dogs. 



by drought. 4 — Destroyed by rabbits. 



grain and only forty pounds of straw per acre. One plot in 1914 

 failed utterly, while a second produced at the rate of 1000 pounds of 

 grain and 2148 pounds of straw per acre. In 1915 the only plot 

 seeded was destroyed by prairie dogs. As a hay crop rye is prob- 

 ably the most promising of any of the small grains. It should be 



