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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 398 



Contribution from the Bureftu of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



October 12, 1916 



CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT THE 



JUDITH BASIN SUBSTATION 



MOCCASIN, MONT. 



By 



N. C. DONALDSON, Scientific Assistant 

 OflSce of Cereal Investigations 



(In cooperation with the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station) 



CONTENTS 



Pago 



Introduction 1 



Description of the Judith Basin .... 2 



The Judith Basin Substation 9 



Experiments with Wheat 14 



Experiments with Oats 26 



Experiments with Barley 31 



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Experiments with Flax 34 



Comparison of the Leading Varieties of 



Cereal^ 39 



Experiments with Minor Cereals ... 39 

 Summary 40 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1916 



