510 FIELD AND GARDEN PRODUCTS 



Numerous tests of varieties of barley have been made at the various 

 State agricultural experiment stations. Oderbrucker, a six-rowed 

 variety, produced the highest yield at the Wisconsin station. At the 

 Minnesota station Manchuria and Russian were the best six-rowed 

 varieties ; Hannchen, Chevalier, and Primus are the best two-rowed. 

 At the North Dakota station Russian was the best six-rowed barley 

 and Moravian the best two-rowed. At the Edgeley and Dickinson 

 substations the two-rowed varieties led in yield, while at Williston the 

 six-rowed were best. The best six-rowed barley yielded slightly more 

 than the best two-rowed at the South Dakota station. At the High- 

 more substation and the Bellefourche Experiment Farm the two- 

 rowed varieties yielded best. At Manhattan, Kans., Tennessee Win- 

 ter barley led in yield and Manchuria was the best spring variety. 

 At McPherson, Kans., the six-rowed spring varieties yielded best. 

 At the Montana station the largest feed returns were obtained from 

 the hulless varieties. The two-rowed barleys were superior to the 

 six-rowed at the Wyoming station. At Akron, Colo., and Modesto, 

 Cal., these two groups differed little in yield. At Nephi, Utah, the 

 six-rowed barleys are the most profitable. 



BARLEY CULTURE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



Winter Barley. This is cultivated in the South for grain, hay, 

 and pasture. At present the most popular variety for grain produc- 

 tion is Tennessee Winter, a six-rowed, bearded barley which was 

 selected and improved by the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment 

 Station and has been widely distributed in recent years by the Office 

 of Grain Investigations of the Bureau of Plant Industry. A similar 

 variety known as Union Winter is grown at the Tennessee station 

 and sometimes gives a larger yield than Tennessee Winter. Union 

 Winter is also grown at the Virginia Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



Spring Barley. Bearded barley as a spring grain crop is not 

 generally adapted to the Southern States, as has been demonstrated 

 at several of the agricultural experiment stations and experimental 

 farms. At the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station a com- 

 parative test was made between the two-rowed and six-rowed spring 

 barleys and the six-rowed winter barley. The two-rowed spring 

 barley yielded at the rate of 24.4 bushels and the six-rowed spring 

 barley at the rate of 29.2 bushels, an average of 27.7 bushels for the 

 spring varieties. The average from three half-acre plats of winter 

 barley was 50.5 bushels, or 22.8 bushels more than that from the 

 spring varieties. The yields of the spring varieties in this experi- 

 ment were far in excess of those of spring barley obtained elsewhere. 



In 1908 nearly two hundred varieties and selections of two- 

 rowed and six-rowed and of bearded and hull-less barleys were sown 

 by the writer on the Arlington Experimental Farm. . The soil and 

 climatic conditions were favorable, and good growth was made by 

 many of the varieties. The greater portion, however, failed to ma- 

 ture grain, but would have made excellent hay. 



Hooded barley can be grown as a spring grain crop on the clay 

 and loam soils of the Piedmont region and higher elevations of the 



