256 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Sandomer. — A plat of this wheat was sown August 23, on same kind 

 of ground as the rye. It came up in about 12 days and stood 4 inches 

 high, when the ground froze. Stand good and uniform. On June 20 

 it was noted that the stand was good and uniform, 6 inches high. July 



1, stand and color fairly good, 8 inches high. July 15, 15 inches high. 

 August 1, 30 inches high, fully headed, and in bloom. August 15, 3i 

 feet high, still in bloom. September 2, some heads well advanced in 

 the milk, new shoots numerous, and in bloom. September 16, lower 

 half of straw turning yellow, heads also turning yellow. It was cut 

 September 30. It was mostly ripe, but is not so early as the Yarasloff, 

 and has more tendency to sucker. Seed was imported from Russia 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Yarasloff. — Sowed August 23, on the same kind of ground as the 

 foregoing variety. It came up in about 12 da}^s, and stood 4 inches 

 high, when the ground froze. Stand good and uniform. On June 20, 

 stand good and 6 inches high. July 1, stand and color good, 8 inches 

 high; needs rain. July 15, 16 inches high, just beginning to head; 

 promising. August 1, 36 inches high, fully headed, and in bloom. 

 August 15, 4 feet high, going out of bloom, forming seed. September 



2, in the dough, straw turning yellow, September 16, nearly ripe. 

 It was cut September 30. The straw at this time was dry, but owing 

 to continuous wet weather, the kernels were not quite hard. It win- 

 tered well, and on old groun(| and in ordinary seasons can be counted 

 on to ripen. Seed imported from Russia by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



The following varieties of spring wheat were seeded May 10 and 11. 

 Owing to the drought in spring and early summer they were slow in 

 starting and in consequence the period of growth was shortened. None 

 of them got fairly started to grow until the rain came, about the middle 

 of July, and by the 1st of August they had scarcely begun to head. 

 But from this date the excessive rain kept these wheats growing, and 

 caused them to throw out shoots from the roots at such a rate that 

 they formed but little grain. September 6 all were cut for hay. The 

 varieties were Romanow, Russian, Pererodka, and Kubanka. All were 

 imported from Russia, and all have been grown successfully at the 

 Sitka Station. The Romanow matured at the Kenai Station in 1899. 



BARLEY. 



Manshury. — Seeded broadcast and harrowed in May 24 on both old 

 and new ground, which had been given a dressing of 500 pounds of 

 fish guano to the acre. On June 20 the stand was good, 3 inches high. 



