UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 336 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



February 10, 1916 



CEREAL EXPERIMENTS IN MARYLAND 

 AND VIRGINIA 



By 



T. R. STANTON, Scientific Assistant, Office of 

 Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 1 



Cereal Production in Maryland and 



Virginia 2 



Physical Factors 3 



Nature of the Experiments 6 



Conditions of the Plat Experiments . . 7 



Experiments with Winter Wheat ... 9 



Page 

 Experiments with Winter Spelt and 



Emmer 26 



Experiments with Winter Rye .... 30 



Experiments with Winter Oats .... 34 



Experiments with Winter Barley ... 42 



Experiments with Spring-Sown Grains . 49 



Summary 49 



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