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varieties with the exception of Trebi. The Xepal (White Hull-less) 

 variety has not given good yields, its onh^ advantage appearing to be 

 the lack of awns. A head of Xepal barley is shown in figure 19. 



Fig. 20. — Irrigating a field of Cbevalier barley on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm. 



Table XLII. — Yields of varieties of barley groicn on irrigated land on the Belle 

 Fourche Experiment Farm, 1912 to 1919, inclusive. 





C.I. 

 No. 



Yields per acre (bushels). 



Group and variety. 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 1918 



1919 



Average. 





1914 

 to 

 1919 



1917 

 to 

 1919 



Six-rowed, hulled: 



Coast 



690 

 905 

 638 

 354 

 182 

 936 



1162 

 530 

 531 



620 



595 









23.0 

 20.9 



15.2 

 14.7 



37.9 ! 65.6 

 23.9 1 66.7 



25.4 

 17.7 



'27,'6' 



43.0 



Manchuria (Wis. No. 13) 



Manchuria (Minn. No. 6) 



'ie.'g' 

 'ii'.i' 



25.8 



21.8 



36.1 



Manchuria (Minn. No. 105) 



23.5 



17.8 















Odessa ^ 















Trebi 





i 





38.6 75.9 



28.8 





47.6 



Two-rowed, hulled: 



Chevaher 







26.8 

 23.0 

 15.0 



26.6 



19.2 



37.2 

 39.2 



23.4 

 20.4 



23.2 

 23.9 

 25.1 



17.5 



14.9 





Chevalier II 



13.0 

 19.8 



'32."9" 



38.5 1 74.3 

 40.7 1 



32.0 



38.5 



48.3 



Harmchen 





Six-rowed, naked: 



Himalaya (Ouy ^favle) 



23.7 t 62.7 

 22.3 51.6 



17.5 



18.4 



28.6 

 24.5 



34.6 



Six-rowQd hooded, naked: 



Nepal (White Hull-less) 



9.1 





30.8 



Table XLIII shows the average dates of heading and maturity, 

 height, weight per bushel, and yields of grain and straw of four 

 varieties of barley grown from 1914 to 1917, inclusive, and 1919. The 

 average yields of these four varieties are also shown in figure 21. 



