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The White Smyrna, C. I. No. 658, an early 2-rowed barley, was 

 grown at Newell only in 1912 and 1913. In 1912 it was exceeded in 

 yield only by the Gatami, while in 1913 it produced the highest yield 

 of any variety in the test. The average yield for the two years is 

 12.5 bushels, only 0.7 bushel less than that of Gatami and higher 

 than that of any other variety. If a 2-rowed variety of barley is to 

 be grown in western South Dakota, it is probable that the White 

 Smyrna or some similar one should be selected. 



The yields obtained from the Nepal (White Hull-less), a 6-rowed 

 naked variety, have been less than those from any of the hulled 

 varieties, except in 1912 and 1913. In these years the Nepal pro- 

 duced less than the best hulled varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MINOR CEREALS. 



RYE. 



Winter rye has been grown in field plats at Newell for only one 

 year, 1913. Three plats produced an average yield of 5.3 bushels, 

 as compared with a yield of 38.8 bushels of Kharkof winter wheat on 

 a near-by plat The low yield of the rye was in part due to damage 

 from a hailstorm, which occurred after the rye headed but before 

 the wheat was far enough advanced to be injured. Another reason 

 for the low yield was that a large percentage of the florets failed to 

 set seed, probably because the pollen was injured by high tempera- 

 tures, low humidity, or some other unfavorable climatic condition. 



EMMER. 



Spring emmer, C. I. No. 1524, has been grown each year with the 

 series of barley varieties, as it was considered that emmer is com- 

 parable to barley as a feed grain. The yields obtained were as fol- 

 lows: 1908, 31.8 bushels; 1909, 21.7 busiiels; 1910, 0.3 bushel; and 

 1913, 11.1 bushels. No yields were produced in 1911 and 1912. 

 The average yield for the six years was 10.8 bushels, while the yield 

 of Hanna barley for the same period was 10.7 bushels. For the five 

 years from 1909 to 1913 the average yield was only 6.6 bushels, as 

 compared with 9.7 bushels for the Odessa barley. For the same 

 period, Sixty-Day oats yielded 14.0 bushels and Kubanka durum 

 wheat 9.4 bushels. These yields are equivalent to 211 pounds of 

 emmer, 466 of barley, 448 of oats, and 564 of wheat. 



Black Winter emmer, C. I. No. 2337, was sown in the fall of 1908. 

 It is estimated that only 1 per cent of the plants survived (he winter. 

 This crop was not grown again until the fall of 1912, when a plat of 

 BufFum Improved winter emmer, C. I. No. 3331, was sown. This 

 variety yielded 1,035 pounds of grain, as compared with 2,130 pounds 

 of winter wheat on a near-by plat. 



The few tests of emmer which have been made at Newell indicate 

 that the crop is not one which can be recommended for that section. 



