UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 402 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, Do C. 



October 3, 1916 



CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT THE 



AKRON FIELD STATION 



AKRON, COLO. 



By 



GEORGE A. McMURDO 

 Assistant, Office of Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 1 



Description of the District 2 



The Akron Field Station 10 



Experiments with Wheat 14 



Page 



Experiments with Oats 24 



Experiments with Barley 28 



Experiments with Minor Cereals ... 31 

 Summary 33 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1916 



