CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT JUDITH BASIN SUBSTATION. 



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per acre. Very satisfactory stands and yields have been obtained 

 from this rate, although, the rate-of-seeding experiment seems to in- 

 dicate that a little heavier seeding would give better results. 



COMPARISON OF THE LEADING VARIETIES OF CEREALS. 



Table XXV gives the annual and average yields (in pounds per 

 acre) of the leading varieties of each of the cereals at Moccasin, for 

 five years, 1910, 1911, and 1913 to 1915, inclusive. This table is 

 presented so that a comparison may be made of the actual yield of 

 grain of each of the cereals. It will be seen from Table XXV that 

 on the average the White Smyrna barley produces more pounds of 

 gram per acre than any of the other cereals. The Kharkof winter 

 wheat is second and the Sixty-Day oats third m the number of 

 poimds of grain produced per acre. 



The average farm value per acre of each of the crops is also given 

 in Table XXV. To obtain this value the amiual yield of each crop 

 was multiplied by the farm price per bushel m Montana on December 

 1 of that year, and the annual values for the five years were then 

 averaged. Winter wheat leads in value per acre, with the White 

 Smyriia barley second and flax third. 



Table XXV.- — Annual and average yields and average farm value of the leading variety 

 of each of the cereals grown at the Judith Basin substation. Moccasin. Mont., for five 

 years 1910, 1911, and 1913 to 1915, inclusive. 



Crop and variety. 



C.I. 



No. 



Yield per acre (pounds). 



Aver- 



Acre 



value of 



crop" 



Kharkof winter wheat 1, 583 



Pelissier spring wheat 1, 584 



Sixty-Day oat i 165 



White Smyrna barley 195 



Nepal barley 595 



Russian flax 19 



2,880 

 630 



1,056 

 590 

 984 



2, 478 1, 866 

 1, 698 1, 920 

 2, 278 2, 409 

 2,490 1 3,360 

 1,800 I 2,220 

 1,070 930 



1,470 

 1,590 



1, 888 

 2,400 

 1,542 



728 



2,964 

 2,530 

 2,998 

 3,854 

 2,508 

 1,282 



2,331 

 1,673 

 2,126 

 2, 540 

 1,810 

 1,002 



$31.08 

 21.58 

 23.70 

 28.42 

 18. 24 



127.09 



a Average for four years, 1911 and 1913 to 1945. 

 EXPERIMENTS WITH MINOR CEREALS. 



Twenty-seven varieties of proso have been tested at Moccasin at 

 some time during the past eight years. While most of the varieties 

 tried will mature seed in a favorable year, the yield is small and in 

 some years no seed is produced. For this reason the crop is not 

 recommended for the Judith Basin. 



Some early varieties of brown kaoliang and broom com were 

 tried for three years. Owing to the short season and cool nights 

 none of them matured seed. 



Emmer and spelt have also been tried, but are not as promising 

 as some of the other grain crops. 



