UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 498 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



February 19, 1917 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING CEREALS 

 AT THE EASTERN OREGON DRY- 

 FARMING SUBSTATION 

 MORO, OREG. 



By 



DAVID E. STEPHENS, Station Superintendent 

 Office of Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



Description of the Station 2 



Soil 3 



Climatic Conditions 5 



Experimental Methods 11 



Dimensions of Plats 11 



Treatment of Plats 12 



Cereal Experiments ........ 14 



Spring Wheat 14 



Page 



Cereal Experiments— Continued. 



Spring Oats 26 



Spring Barley .' . 31 



Comparative Vaiue of Wheat, Oats, 



and Barley 35 



Spring Emmer 35 



Grain Sorghums 36 



Summary 36 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1917 



