CEREAL EXPERIMENTS IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA. 



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Table IV. — Miscellaneous data for varieties of winter wheat groiun at the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Statiori ( College Park) and at Arlington Farm, Va.,for the periods 

 stated — Continued. 



Arlington Farm, Va. (43 Varieties), 1910 to 1914, Inclusive— Continued. 



Group and variety. 



soft red winter— contd, 



Awnless, glumes glabrous, 

 white: 



Purple Straw 



Fultz 



Purple Straw 



Maryland Flint 



Fultzo-Mediterranean . 



Kentucky 



Awnless, glumes glabrous, 

 brown: 



Poole 



Hybrid 



Mich igan A mber 



Currell (Currell Pro- 

 lific) 



China 



Awnless, glumes pubescent 

 white: 



Jones Winter Fife 



Hybrid 



soft white or amber 



WINTER. 



Awned, glumes glabrous, 



white: 



New A mber Longberry 



Awned, glumes glabrous, 



brown: 



Genesee Giant (Early 



Genesee Giant) 



Awned, glumes pubescent, 

 white: 

 Bearded Winter Fife.. 



Do 



Awnless, glumes glabrous, 

 white: 



Martin Amber 



Awnless, glumes glabrous, 

 brown: 

 Dawson Golden Chaff. 



HARD RED WINTER. 



Awned, glumes glabrous, 

 white: 

 Kharkof (Acme Bred 



Kharkof) 



Awnless, glumes glabrous, 

 white: 

 Power 3 



DURUM. 



Berdiansk 3 



1 For four years only. 



C.I. 



No. 



Num- 

 ber of 



Average date — 











grown. 



Headod. 



Ripe. 



1915 

 1923 

 1957 

 1949 

 1980 

 B-383 



5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 2 



May 19 

 May 22 

 May 17 

 May 22 

 May 23 

 May 21 



June 18 



...do 



...do 

 June 17 

 June 22 

 June 21 



1979 

 3610 

 1969 



2 

 5 

 4 



May 22 

 May 26 

 May 23 



June 22 

 'June 30 

 June 21 



3326 



180 



2 

 2 



May 22 

 May 28 



June 20 

 June 24 



1933 

 3618 



5 

 5 



May 26 

 ...do 



June 22 

 ...do.i... 



1973 



5 



May 28 



June 24 



1744 



5 



May 25 



...do 



1942 

 4204 



5 

 2 



May 23 

 May 24 



June 21 

 ...do 



1974 



2 



May 26 



June 25 



1733 



2 



May 25 



June 21 



3615 



2 



May 27 



June 24 



1506 



1 



May 10 



June 26 



1586 



4 



2 May 25 



...do 



Aver- 

 age 

 height. 



Inches. 

 46 

 48 

 49 

 46 

 45 

 46 



52 



Average yield per 

 aero. 



Grain. 



Bushels. 

 32.09 

 29.17 

 29.08 

 26.18 

 22.05 

 26.57 



28.74 

 23.85 

 24.71 



25.25 

 20.90 



24.57 

 23.31 



27.05 



28. 24 

 29.80 



24.55 

 29.37 



19.24 



14.50 



15. 78 



Straw. 



Pounds. 

 4,320 

 4,200 

 4, 590 

 4,580 

 3,780 

 4,100 



4,510 

 3,180 

 4,610 



4,610 

 5,700 



: 3, 880 

 3,840 



4,830 



4,210 

 4,610 



4,580 

 4,110 



2 2, 150 



Average 

 weight 



per 



bushel. 



Pounds. 

 61.4 

 60.8 

 61.3 

 160.9 

 '61.5 

 60.5 



60.4 



160.2 



60.8 



61.0 

 61.0 



60.9 

 160.4 



59.0 



60.2 

 60.3 



60. £ 

 60.2 



2 For three years only. a Spring wheats grown from fallseeding. 



From Tables III and IV it will be noted that 11 of the wheats 



included in the tests at Arlington are hybrids. Two of these hybrids 



were also included in the varietal tests at College Park in 1908 and 



1909, and are shown in Table III. These 11 hybrids are now prac- 



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