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BULLETIN 1334_, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE 
EDGELEY, N. DAK. 
Varietal tests of barley were made at the Edgeley substation in North Dakota 
in 12 of the 19 years from 1903 to 1921, inclusive. During the years 1904 to 
1909, inclusive, they vrere in cooperation with the United States Department of 
Agriculture. The yields before and after these dates were obtained through the 
courtesy of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The annual 
yields are given in Table 37. A group digest not reported here showed the 
Chevalier and Hanna groups to exceed the Manchuria in yield. The Hybrid, 
Hull-less, and Thorpe groups follow in the order named. 
In the summarized digest of Table 37, in which 10 individual varieties repre- 
senting different groups are compared, it is still more apparent that the Alan- 
churia barleys do not hold here the^ position of prominence that they maintain 
throughout most of the Mississippi Vallev. White Smvrna (C. I. No. 195), 
Club Mariout (C. I. No. 261), Hanna (C. I. No. 203), and Hannchen (C. I. No. 
531) produced yields in the order named. The two highest yielding sorts were 
varieties which do best where the ripening season comes during a period of dry 
weather. The Hanna and Hannchen also are varieties that produce their best 
yields in regions in which the diseases that flourish in hot humid climates do not 
occur. It will be remembered that at the Canadian stations, the results of 
which have already been presented, the 2-rowed barleys began to yield relatively 
well in about the same longitude in Canada. The conditions favorable to the 
production of 2-rowed barley which exist in New York State probably obtain 
far to the north of the Mississippi Valley in Canada, but extend south again 
into the northern Great Plains of the United States. 
LANGDON, N. DAK. 
The results of barley varietal experiments at the Langdon substation in North 
Dakota (Table 38) were furnished through the courtesy of the North Dakota 
Agricultural Experiment Station. Only three varieties, all of the INIanchuria 
tj^pe, Manchuria (C. I. Nos. 244 and 241) and Common (C. I. No. 184), were 
tested for the full seven years of the experiment, 1909 to 1915, inclusive. Of 
these three. Common produced the highest average yield. JManchuria (C. I. 
Nos. 241 and 244) followed, being almost the equal of Common. Silver King 
(C. I. No. 890), a pedigreed Pvlanchuria barley, was grow^n from 1909 to 1914, 
inclusive. It produced comparatively high yields, as did Mansury (C. I. No. 
617), a barley of the Thorpe group, which was grown for the same period. Two 
hull-less varieties, Evans (C. I. No. 892) and Nepal (C. I. No. 595), were low 
yielders, as was also Horsford (C. I. No. 507). Three new sorts, Oderbrucker 
(C. I. No. 836), Hannchen (C. I. No. 531), and Primus (C. I. No. 532), were 
grown in 1914 and 1915. Hannchen produced an average yield slightly higher 
than that of Oderbrucker and Primus. The results obtained indicate that, while 
Langdon is still in the Manchuria district, the 2-rowed barleys can be grown 
with almost equal success. These results correspond with those found at 
Edgeley. 
Table 38. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the Langdon (X. Dak.) 
substation in 'part or all of the seven years from 1909 to 1915, inclusive 
[Data obtained through the courtesy of the North Dakota AgricuUural Experiment Station] 
Variety 
CI. 
No. 
Acre yields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Average 
yield 
(bus.) 
Pcrcent- 
a.TC of 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
weighted 
moan 
244 
241 
890 
184 
892 
G17 
507 
695 
836 
531 
532 
38.5 
41.6 
44.5 
42.7 
51.4 
37.0 
15.1 
17.3 
15.7 
13.6 
10.1 
10.0 
14.8 
9.1 
38.7 
40. 1 
39. 
39.6 
25.0 
30.7 
34.4 
36.6 
37.3 
37.0 
34.7 
39. 3 
26.6 
53. 
31.7 
30.5 
29.2 
28.3 
26.7 
35.0 
22.0 
26.7 
20.3 
22.0 
12.5 
15. 8 
12.1 
16.3 
16.3 
12.9 
15.0 
41.5 
40. 1 
"36." 7" 
'3i.'6' 
1 
7 
6 
7 
6 
6 
6 
4 
2 
2 
2 
30.4 
31.5 
28.8 
31.9 
25.2 
28.4 
24.5 
24.5 
30.7 
31.9 
30.7 
105.6 
109.4 
Do 
Silver King 
107. 1 
Common 
110 8 
93.7 
Mansury 
105 6 
Horsford 
90 4 
88. 1 
Oderbrucker 
17.1 
15 3 
44.2 
48.1 
48.1 
119. 5 
Hannchen 
124 1 
13.3 
119.5 
