36 BULLETIX 13S4, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUKE 
INDIAN HEAD, SASKATCHEWAN 
The experimental farm at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, was also one of the 
earlier ones to be established in Canada. Field tests of barley were begun in 
1888, and by 1915 some varieties had been tested for as many as 25 years. The 
results are given in Table 8. The IManchuria barleys yielded well at Indian 
Head, but they were not relatively so good as at Brandon. While the Chevalier 
group did not rank high, the yield of Danish Chevaher (C. I. No. 182) was 
109 per cent of the weighted mean over a period of 25 years. From the digest 
made of the various groups the Manchuria is shown to be distinctly superior to 
all the others. The Thorpe and Hanna groups were better than the Chevalier 
at Indian Head. The Polar varieties were promising, but the hybrid sorts 
did not average high in yield. Ten varieties of different types are compared 
in the summarized digest of Table 8. Blue Long Head (C. I. Xo. 2685), a 
barley of North African origin, was the best of these by a small margin. This 
is of interest because it is a definite indication of the change of ecological con- 
ditions, the more arid summers being suitable to the growing of barleys of the 
North African type. It appears that Indian Head is on the border line of an 
ecological area as far as the production of barlev is concerned. Hannchen 
(C. I. No. 531), Odessa (C. I. No. 182), Danish Chevalier (C. I. No. 180), and 
Mensury (C. I. No. 2657) gave yields in the order named. A number of varie- 
ties given in Table 8 were not in the test a sufficient number of years to establish 
their value. The most promising of these were Hannchen (C. I. No. 531), 
O. A. C. 21 (C. I. No. 1470), Gold (C. I. No. 1145), Standwell (C. I. No. 584), 
and Invincible (C. I. No. 590). These last two are hybrid varieties of the Thorpe 
type. 
