UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 214 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



May 1, 1915 



SPRING WHEAT IN THE GREAT 

 PLAINS AREA 



RELATION OF CULTURAL METHODS 

 TO PRODUCTION 



By 



E. G. CHILCOTT, Agriculturist in Charge, and J. S. COLE 



and W. W. BURR, Assistants, Office of 



Dry-Land Agriculture 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 1 



Climatic Conditions 4 



General Plan of the Investigations ... 5 

 Comparison o( Cultural Methods on the 



Basis of Cost 8 



Results at the Several Stations 

 General Discussion of Results 

 Conclusions 



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1915 



