TESTS OF BARLEY A^ARIETIES I"^ AMERICA 
99 
NEWELL, S. DAK. 
Dry-land conditions. — The yields of barley varieties grown on dry land at the 
Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, Newell, S. Dak., were obtained in cooperation 
with the Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture. These yields for the years 
1908 to 1919, inclusive, are shown in Table 46. Ten varieties representing 
different types and groups are compared in the summarized digest of Table 46. 
The highest yields were obtained from WTiite Smyrna (C. I. No. 658) and Hann- 
chen (C. I. No. 531). Coast (C. I. No. 690), which was grown only during the 
last five years of the experiment, was not comparable with Chevaher II (C. I. 
No. 200) or Hanna (C. I. No. 24). It was superior, however, to the other five 
of the ten varieties. Odessa (C. I. No. 182), Gatami (C. I. No. 575), and Man- 
churia (C. I. No. 241) follow in the order named. Here again the results con- 
firm the conclusions that in the western two-thirds of South Dakota the 2-rowed 
barleys are equal or superior to the 6-rowed sorts. At Newell under dry-land 
conditions all other varieties are surpassed by the 2-rowed varieties Hannchen 
and White Smyrna. 
Table 46. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown on dry land at the Belle 
Fourche (Newell, S. Dak.) Experiment Farm in part or all of the 12 years from 
1908 to 1919, inclusive 
[Data obtaiAed in cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station] 
Variety 
C.L 
No. 
Acre yields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
weighted 
mean 
244 
262 
595 
24 
203 
211 
182 
200 
531 
658 
575 
690 
620 
195 
26.0 
16.3 
12.0 
29.0 
27.9 
17.3 
9.6 
9.0 
23.8 
21.4 
19.8 
22.1 
22.1 
19.2 
4.3 
2.5 
\.l 
1.4 
5.2 
8.1 

3.1 

I 






7.4 
6.6 
6 
4 
12 
7 
5 
11 
11 
6 
11 
8 
8 
5 
5 
1 
10.3 
7.1 
10.9 
9.6 
10.1 
15.3 
17.6 
5.0 
18.0 
23.9 
20.0 
30.3 
21.4 
77.9 
115.7 
Nepal 
74.7 
Do 
10.7 


8.1 
9.8 


10.7 
18.3 
8.9 
10.7 
4.9 
2.7 
50.8 
13.1 
9.5 
8.7 
2.0 
67.3 
114.3 
Do 
114.8 
Manchuria 
Odessa 
8.0 
8.7 
6.8 
12.7 
14.3 
8.2 
4.2 
3.5 
1.1 
6.7 
14.4 
6.9 
62.1 
69.4 
20.2 
20.1 
12.9 
18.3 
18.3 
20.0 
9.0 
8.0 
96.8 
111.4 
Chevalier II 
70.4 
85.9 
76.2 
50.6 
82.8 
58.4 
77.9 
23.5 
24.6 
28.2 
18.3 
IS. 3 
17.5 
2.3.3 
26.0 
22.1 
12.4 
23.6 
18.4 
14.4 
18.4 
12.7 
6.1 
9.2 
7.1 
9.8 
5.4 
113.9 
White Smyrna 
Gatarai 
123.8 
103.6 
Coast 
111. 
I T i m n ! a vn 
78 4 
White Smyrna 
114.2 
1 
Summarized Digest, Showing the Relative Performance of lo Representative Varieties 
[Explanation .—Th^i asterisk (*) indicates that the two varieties to which it relates were not grown in 
the same years] 
Variety 
Chevalier II-- 
Hanna 
Hannchen 
Manchuria 
Odessa 
Gatami 
Coast 
White Smj-rna 
Nepal 
Himalaj'a 
C.L 
No. 
Data shown 
„r,n /Years comparable. 
""^ A Percentage yield-, 
p. (Years comparable. 
\Percentage yield- . 
„, /Years comparable. 
^"^^tPercentage yield- . 
„,. 'f Years comparable. 
, (Percentage yield- . 
•joo'/Years comparable. 
®"i\Percentage yield., 
j.^-!/ Years comparable. 
^^^j\Percentage yiekL. 
-,qn JYears comparable. 
"■^"APercentage yield- . 
^.g' (Years comparable. 
''^APercentage yield. . 
,qJ (Years comparable. 
^^^j\Percentage yield.. 
^r>^j (Years comparable. 
l\Percentage yield. _ 
Varieties and percentages 
6 
78.5 
127.3 
6 
139.0 
6 
151.0 
6 
174.0 
3 
422.8 
(*) 
109.2 
6 
118.6 
6 
136.6 
3 
249.3 
(*) 
498.7 294.0 
7 
117.3 
(*) 
70.2 
(*) 
91.6 
11 
84.6 
11 
90.7 
5 
96.7 
8 
108.6 
11 
60.2 
5 
68.5 
84.3 
11 
118.2 
11 
115.6 
8 
111.8 
5 
123.6 
8 
133. 8 
11 
71.1 
5 
87.5 
40.1 
57. 5 
6 i 
73.2 
11 I 
102.2 110.2 
11 I 8 
86.5 89.4 
8 
102.6 
8 
97.5 
5 
106.8 
8. 
113.7 
11 
61.5 
5 
75.6 
5 
119.9 
8 
119.7 
8 
68.0 
5 
84.9 
5 
103.4 
5 
80. 
5 
93.7 
5 
83.4 
5 
100.2 
5 
55.5 
5 
70.8 
3 
20.1 
3 
34.0 
8 
92.1 
8 
74.7 
8 
85.7 
8 
83.6 
5 
8 
56.8 
5 
70.7 
6 
85.2 
7 
142.4 
11 
106.2 
11 
140.7 
11 
162.6 
8 
147.1 
5 
180. C 
8 
176. 
5 
127.5 
5 
146.1 
5 
114.3 
5 
132.3 
5 
117.8 
5 
141.2 
5 
141.5 
5 
78.5 
