BARLEY IN THE GREAT PLAINS AREA. 
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To facilitate this study, Tabic XIX has been prepared, bringing 
together for each station the average yields as grouped for this study 
tinder different methods of preparation, and also assembling the 
data from the tables of yields and cost of production in such a way as 
to show the profit or loss in dollars and cents per acre for the average 
crop by each method for which it has been computed at each station. 
Table XIX shows that the yields at Belle Fourche, Garden City, 
Dalhart, and Amarillo have been markedly lower than at the 10 
other stations. While some methods have increased the yields at 
these stations, they have not brought them up to a point that offers 
much encouragement for the growth of barley. The only profit 
shown from any method under study at these stations is one of 35 
cents per acre from disked corn ground at Belle Fourche. This 
nominal profit has resulted from the low cost of production rather 
than from the amount of yield. The indications are that the combi- 
nation of soil and climatic conditions at these stations is not favorable 
to the growth of barley, nor can the unfavorable conditions be over- 
come by cultural practices. 
Table XIX. — Comparison of the average yields and profit or loss in the production of 
barley by different methods of tillage at fourteen stations in the Great Plains area. 
Number 
of years 
averaged. 
Methods of tillage. 
Statement of data. 
Fall 
plowed. 
Spring 
plowed. 
Listed. 
Sub- 
soiled. 
Disked. 
Green 
manured. 
Summer 
tilled. 
Yields per acre (bushels): 
Judith Basin 
5 
2 
5 
6 
8 
3 
6 
2 
8 
6 
6 
5 
4 
6 
5 
3 
5 
6 
8 
3 
6 
2 
8 
6 
6 
5 
4 
6 
24.0 
24.0 
29.6 
16.1 
24.6 
18.5 
25.5 
8.3 
15.4 
15.9 
18.8 
11.2 
4.3 
1.9 
5.7 
$3.85 
6.15 
.61 
4.10 
1.60 
4.47 
-2.59 
.32 
.53 
1.72 
-1.40 
-4.23 
-5.21 
-3.65 
29.0 
30.5 
29.0 
34.5 
27.5 
37.4 
23.4 
14.9 
12.2 
18.6 
13.4 
18.4 
14.1 
8.9 
1.6 
6.6 
$7.24 
9.50 
6.63 
30.2 
Huntley 
43.8 
Williston 
17.4 
25.1 
16.7 
19.9 
7.6 
14.0 
17.1 
18.6 
13.6 
6.9 
3.9 
8.2 
$3.38 
28.8 
Dickinson 
32.5 
Edgeley 
20.0 
Hettinger 
31.8 
Belle Fourche 
7.7 
14.4 
8.0 
15.0 
12.6 
Scottsbluff 
27.6 
North Platte 
26.7 
Akron 
17.9 
12.7 
8.3 
4.4 
6.1 
$6.44 
14.0 
14.6 
6.9 
24 8 
Hays 
15.5 
19 3 
Garden City 
11.0 
Dalhart 
6.4 
Amarillo 
6.8 
$5.44 
12 6 
Profit or loss ( — ) per acre: 
Judith Basin 
$0 98 
Huntley 
$3.45 
Williston 
.67 
3.83 
.39 
1.70 
-3.34 
- .72 
.55 
1.17 
- .88 
-3.63 
-4.86 
-3.10 
41 
Dickinson 
10.68 
1 93 
Edgelev 
4.94 
1.46 
.35 
2.98 
.84 
2.89 
1.13 
-1.00 
-3.99 
-1.94 
—3 20 
Hettinger 
1 64 
Belle Fourche 
-2.29 
.45 
-3.79 
- .92 
—6.23 
Scottsbluff 
08 
North Platte 
— 55 
Akron 
1.89 
- .24 
-2.05 
-3.65 
-2.95 
-1.33 
-1.08 
-4.24 
— 1 23 
Hays 
-8.15 
3 49 
Garden City 
—6.89 
Dalhart 
—8.78 
Amarillo 
-4.28 
—6.23 
Table XIX also shows that at 10 of the 14 stations under study 
disked corn ground has been productive of higher yields of barley 
than either the fall or spring plowing of stubble. At Hettinger and 
North Platte it has been clearly exceeded by both. At Akron it 
