TESTS OF BAEIjEY TAKIETIES IN" AMERICA 
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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
The climate of Prince Edward Island is analogous to that of England. The 
summers are mild, and the growing season of barley is long. As might be ex- 
pected the dominant varieties are of the Chevalier t3-pe. This is due not only 
to their superior adaptation, but to the farming system on the island. Very few 
fields of pure barley are grown here. As in a large part of eastern Canada, barley 
and oats are grown together, and the resulting crop is used as feed without the 
separation of the two. The yield from these mixed fields is higher than from 
either barley or oats seeded alone. ^ As the oat crop is later in maturing than 
barley, only the late-ripening varieties of barley are suited to mixing with oats 
at seeding time. 
Table 1. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the experiment station 
for Prince Edward Island {at Charlottetown) in part or all of the six years from 
1910 to 1915, inclusive 
[Data compiled from the Canadian Experimental Farms Reports] 
C.I. 
No. 
Acre yields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Per- 
cent- 
Variety 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
age of 
weight- 
mean 
Albert 
1551 
1557 
2G57 
176 
2241 
2678 
182 
1470 
173 
1592 
2700 
690 
200 
531 
584 
1910 
175 
1915 
740 
2672 
180 
739 
2733 
1145 
2725 
2732 
80.7 
79.5 
79.2 
70.6 
66.0 
63.4 
61.6 
60.1 
58.9 
55.2 
48.7 
83.3 
80.6 
77.3 
59.6 
59.4 
58.3 
53.7 
51.6 
50.7 
49.1 
50.6 
51.9 
37.4 
60.7 
35.7 
44.9 
45.7 
53.5 
37.9 
39.7 
41.6 
4.5.3 
50.1 
38.9 
45.7 
41.7 
44.4 
41.0 
43.3 
42.1 
43.9 
43.4 
51.4 
52.5 
71.4 
56.1 
6 
2 
2 
6 
2 
6 
6 
6 
6 
2 
6 
6 
6 
\ 
5 
2 
6 
6 
2 
2 
5 
3 
3 
2 
1 
60.5 
65.7 
- 58.3 
62.1 
50.9 
61.5 
58.9 
61.5 
59.2 
47.5 
57.0 
61.1 
66.7 
64.4 
55.3 
52.8 
51.3 
47.2 
56.7 
46.4 
46.5 
59.4 
73.3 
73.0 
C2. 1 
75.3 
102.4 
Claude 
121 4 
107 8 
54.2 
56.2 
70.3 
60.8 
105. 1 
94 1 
Stella 
60.1 
65.3 
66.7 
63.9 
53.9 
51.8 
53.1 
46.9 
79.3 
65.3 
70.9 
81.2 
67. G 
63.7 
64.5 
66.6 
104 1 
99.7 
0. A. C. 21.— 
104.1 
100.2 
Yale :------"--'"----'-I--- 
87 8 
Oderbrucker . . - 
68.0 
53.0 
66.7 
62.3 
57.4 
49.0 
51.4 
58.7 
57.7 
65.0 
49.8 
48.7 
69.3 
65.4 
74.1 
7S.3 
64.5 
65.2 
63.0 
61.0 
71.0 
'54."9' 
96 4 
103.4 
Chevalier II 
112 9 
110. 1 
StandweU 
93.6 
Clifford 
90 3 
French Chevalier 
94 8 
Beaver 
46.3 
61.6 
48.4 
56.4 
52.9 
70.2 
40.8 
67.3 
79 9 
Canadian Thorpe 
95 9 
85.8 
Danish Chevalier - --- 
86 
M anchurian 
67.0 
67.9 
64.5 
68.6 
63.2 
69.3 
83.3 
82.3 
65.0 
62.6 
'73." 5" 
59.3 
75.3 
102 6 
117.7 
Gold 
115 9 
Early Chevalier 
92 8 
Charlottetown 80 . 
120.7 
1 
Summarized Digest, Showing the Relative Performance of Six Representath'e Varieties 
C.I. 
No. 
Data shown 
Varieties and percentages 
Variety 
Cheva- 
lier II 
Invin- 
cible 
Hann- 
chen 
Man- 
churian 
Odessa 
SteUa 
200 
590 
531 
739 
182 
2678 
6 
109.1 
105.3 
104.7 
6 
96.4 
6 
100.7 
5 
102.3 
5 
95.0 
....... 
95.8 
5 
90.0 
5 
93.7 
5 
107.7 
5 
95.5 
4 
104.4 
.„.-— 
98.3 
5 
103.0 
6 
113.2 
6 
103.8 
5 
111. 1 
5 
101.7 
........ 
104.5 
6 
Chevalier II 
108.4 
6 
91.6 
5 
97.8 
5 
92.9 
6 
88.3 
6 
92.3 
6 
Invincible 
\Percentage vield 
99 3 
6 
Hannchen 
106.7 
/Years comparable 
5 
Manchurian 
97.1 
/Years comparable 
6 
\Percentage yield 
