26 BULLETIN 1334^ V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTTJEE 
CAP ROUGE, QUEBEC 
During one or more of the five years from 1911 to 1915, inclusive, 15 varieties 
of barley were tested at Cap Rouge, Quebec. Only two of these varieties were 
grown for as many as four of the five years. The results are reported in Table 
5. Early Chevalier (C. I. No. 2725) was undoubtedly the best variety for the 
three years in which it was tested. The indications are that the Chevalier 
barlevs are well adapted to this section of Quebec. The summarized digest of 
Table 5 shows that Duckbill (C. I. No. 1916) and Odessa (C. I. No. 182) ranked 
high among the varieties. These tw^o have been widely tested at Canadian 
stations and have given good yields at mau}^ places. Gold (C. I. No. 1145) 
grown only in 1915 produced the highest yield in that year. 
OTTAWA, ONTARIO 
The Central Experimental Farm of Canada is located at Ottawa, Ontario. 
The other Dominion experimental farms are under the direct supervision of this 
institution. Most of the barleys tested at these farms were received from the 
farm at Ottawa. The many hybrids tested at the various stations were pro- 
duced by Dr. C. E. Saunders, of that farm. 
The work at Ottawa began in 1889. Table 6 shows that 15 varieties were 
tested in that year. Barley was grown in all but one of the years from 1889 to 
1915, inclusive. In all, nearly 150 varieties were tested. Although this large 
number makes inspection of the data difficult, it is obvious that barleys of the 
Manchuria and Odessa tj'pes are the highest yielding sorts at Ottawa. The 
Chevalier barleys are not particularly good, although Early Chevalier (C. I. 
No. 2725) has shown promise since its introduction in 1907. From the column 
of percentages it is evident that a number of hvbrid sorts have given good fields. 
Among the best of these are Stella (C. I. No. 2678), Trooper (C. I. No. 173), 
Nugent (C. I. No. 176), and Albert (C. I. No. 1551). Among the widely tested 
varieties which do not vield well at Ottawa are Chevalier II (C. I. No. 200), 
Invincible (C. I. No. 590), and Standwell (C. I. No. 584). 
Nine groups of barleys were compare^. The number in the groups varied 
from only 2 in Coast and Nudum to 40 in the Hybrid. The groups ranked as 
follows: Manchuria, Hybrid, Hanna, Nudum, Coast, Thorpe, Polar, Chevalier, 
and Himalaya. The Manchuria was much better than any of the other groups 
compared. The high yields of the hybrids may have been due to the fact that 
they were developed at Ottawa and selected for yield at that place. They 
probably have done relatively better at this place than at the other stations. 
The Hanna barleys produced almost as much as the hybrids. The Nudum 
group was represented by only two varieties and therefore probably stands too 
high as a group. The high j'ield of the Nudum barleys is due to the unusual 
productivity of Caucasian (C. I. No. 2724). This is a 2-rowed naked sort, 
similar to the Baku grown at a number of western experiment stations in the 
United States. Its yield is especially interesting, inasmuch as the naked oats 
have yielded exceptionally weH at Ottawa. 
Ten well-known varieties are compared in the summarized digest of Table 6. 
Odessa (C. I. No. 182) is the best of the 10 compared in this table. Mcnsury 
(C. I. No. 2657), Hannchen (C. I. No. 531), Stella (C. I. No. 2678), and Svanhals 
(C. I. No. 187) follow in order. Blue Long Head (C. I. No. 2685) was relatively 
better here than at Nappan. The climatic conditions at Ottawa are not only 
more favorable to the growth of Manchuria varieties and less favorable to the 
Chevalier barleys than is the case in eastern Canada but also are such that bar- 
leys suited to the arid regions grow quite well. Neither the Chevalier nor the 
Thorpe groups were at their best, although the former were better than the 
latter. It is unfortunate that only a limited number of varieties can be com- 
pared in this way, as it resulted in eliminating several verv promising sorts from 
the comparison. Manciuirian (C. I. No. 739), Gold (C. I. No. 1145), and 
O. A. C. 21 (C. I. No. 1470) have been particularly promising since their intro- 
duction in the more recent years. 
