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new ground, on a plat located alongside of the two foregoing. On 

 June 15 it was 3 inches high, with a good stand. July 1 it was 8 inches 

 high, and owing to the new ground it was very good in spots and very 

 poor in other places. July 18 it was 2 feet high and heading out and 

 some heads in bloom. August 1 the best of it was 3 feet 6 inches high. 

 August 15 it was 4 feet high and the grain in the milk. September 4 

 it was ripe and harvested. Certain spots, where the growth was 

 excessive, were still green at this date. It is a promising variety for 

 Alaska, and about equal to the Manshury in both earliness and pro- 

 ductiveness. 



Lapland. — The seed was imported under this name from Lap- 

 land by the United States Department of Agriculture. Seeded May^ 

 15, on new ground, it was up May 27. June 15 it was 4 inches 

 high with a good stand and a good healthy color. July 1 it was a foot 

 high and looked well on one-half the plat; the other half was stunted, 

 owing to the character of the new ground. July 18 it was 28 inches 

 high and nearly all headed out, beginning to bloom. August 1 the 

 grain was formed. August 15 the grain was in the milk and August 

 26 it was ripe and harvested. This is the earliest variety of barley 

 that we have found and it is apparently well suited to Alaska. The 

 straw is short and the heads not large, but it stands up well and as 

 here shown matures early. It is a so-called four-rowed variety. 



Black Ilulless. — A plat of this variety was seeded May 22 on new 

 ground. It was up on June 7. On June 15 it showed a rather light 

 stand and was 5 inches high. July 1 the growth was spotted, owing 

 to the character of the new ground, the best of it 8 inches high. 

 July 18 it was 20 inches high and a few heads showing. August 1 the 

 best was 2 feet 6 inches high, beginning to bloom. August 15 it was 

 34 inches high and the grain forming. September 4 it was ripe, but 

 owing to the continuous rain it was not harvested until September 23. 

 This well-known variety is not a large yielder, but its earliness recom- 

 mends it for use in Alaska. Moreover, the naked kernels make it 

 possible for the Indians to use it in their primitive ways of cooking 

 without being milled. For this reason I recommend that it be intro- 

 duced in Indian communities. Our experiments have proved that it can 

 be grown successfully in Alaska, and if the Indians were made familiar 

 with its qualities, it ought to become popular among them as an addi- 

 tion to their very limited list of foods. 



Chevalier. — The plat of this two-rowed variety was seeded on old 

 ground in one of the town lots May 7. It was slow in coming up 

 and made a poor growth all through the season. On June 15 it was 

 only 3 inches high. July 1 it was 6 inches high. August 1 the best of 

 it was 20 inches high. August 15 the best was 26 inches high and just 

 beginning to bloom. This variety did not ripen. It can not be 

 recommended for Alaska. 



