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BULLETIN" 836, U. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



COMPARATIVE YIELDS IN THE VARIETAL EXPERIMENTS. 



The annual and average acre yields of brush of good and of poor 

 quality from all the selections in all three groups of broom corn 

 grown in the varietal experiments are shown in Table VIII. The 







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Fig. G. — Diagram showing the annual and average acre yields of. good brush of the 

 Standard, Acme, and Dwarf broom corn grown in varietal experiments at the Wood- 

 the 5-year period from 1914 to 1918, inclusive. 



ward Field Station durins 



average yields are given first for the two years, 1917 and 1918, in 

 order to compare a few selections grown only in those years. The 

 average yields in the full 5-year period from 1914 to 1918, inclusive, 

 are given for all selections grown for that length of time. 



