BARLEY 



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the Akron, Colorado, experiment farm. At the Kansas 

 State experiment station, Manhattan, Tennessee Winter 

 gave a much better average yield in a six-years test than 

 the spring barleys. At the McPherson, Kansas, experi- 

 ment farm, in a four-years test, six-row spring barleys 

 did better than either winter or two-row varieties. 



Varieties now grown or adapted : 



Coast Oderbrucker Success 



Manchuria Odessa Tennessee Winter 



Needs of the district : 

 Drought resistance 

 Earliness in spring varieties 

 Hardier winter varieties 



133. Western Intermountain barley district. This 

 district includes both irrigated and dry land areas between 

 the western mountain ranges as given under oat distri- 

 bution. A fair quantity of barley, comparatively, is 

 produced in this district, composed of various varieties. 



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FIG. 48. Manchuria (Minn. 105) barley at Montana Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Bozeman. 



