UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 270 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



July 29, 1915. 



CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT THE 

 WILLISTON STATION 



By 



F. RAY BABCOCK, Scientific Assistant, Office of 

 Cereal Investigations 



( Iu cooperation with the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station ) 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 1 



Description of the Substation .... 2 



Experimental Methods 8 



Experiments with Wheat 13 



Experiments with Oats 24 



Page 



Experiments with Barley 28 



Experiments with Flax 33 



Experiments with Minor Cereals ... 33 

 Summary 34 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1915 



