UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 297 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



October 28, 1915 



CEREAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE 

 BELLE FOURCHE EXPERIMENT FARM 



By 



CECIL SALMON, formerly Plant Physiologist, 

 Office of Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 1 



Description of the Field Station ... 2 



Experimental Methods 10 



Interpretation of Experimental Results . 13 



Experiments with Wheat 14 



Page. 



Experiments with Oats 29 



Experiments with Barley 34 



Experiments with Minor Cereals ... 38 



Experiments with Flax 39 



Summary 40 



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