DIVISION OF CEREALS 



1089 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BARLKY. 



Fourteen varieties of barley were tested. The general yield of all varieties was 

 above average. Beaver, a two-row type whieh. matured in one hundred and two days, 

 gave the highest yield, and is also highest in the five-year average. For an average 

 of five years this variety is closely followed by Danish Chevalier and Swedish Chevalier, 

 which ripened in one hundred and six and one hundred and eight days, respectively. 

 All varieties were somewhat weak in the straw this season. Success, a six-row beard- 

 less type, gave the lowest yield. White Hulless, a six-row type, was also very low in 

 yield. 



All the barley plots were sown on April 9. 



Barley. — Test of Varieties. 



'Average yield over a period of 4 ycara. 



Agassiz. 



