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BULLETIN 1334, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE 
Irrigated land. — Barleys were grown under irrigation at the Belle Fourche 
Experiment Farm, Newell, S. Dak., in cooperation with the Office of Western 
Irrigation Agriculture from 1912 to 1921, inclusive. The yields of the 12 varieties 
tested during this period are presented in Table 47. Seven of these were grown 
for more than three years. This table shows that the 2-rowed varieties are high- 
yielding sorts under irrigation at Newell, as they also were under dry-land condi- 
tions there. Hannchen (C. I. No. 631) was surpassed by Chevalier II (C. I. No. 
200) for the seven comparable years in which they were grown. Coast (C. I. 
No. 690), which was tested for 6 of the 10 years of the experiment, was excelled 
by both Chevalier II and Hannchen. Trebi (C. I. No. 936) produced the highest 
average yield of all varieties during the period from 1917 to 1921, inclusive. 
This has been a very productive variety at rather high altitudes under irrigation 
in the West. White Smyrna (C. I. No. 195) , which was the highest yielding sort 
on dry land here, was tested only in 1921, when it gave but a fair return. 
Table 47. — Annual acre yield of varieties of barley grown oh irrigated land at the 
Belle Fourche (Newell, S. Dak.) Experiment Farm in one or more of the 10 years 
from 1912 to 1921, inclusive 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station from 1912 to 1919, 
inclusive. Data for 1920 and 1921 used by courtesy of the Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture] 
C.I. 
No. 
A^re yields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
Variety 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
weight- 
mean 
241 
182 
531 
595 
905 
244 
1142 
620 
690 
936 
195 
16.9 
17.4 
13.0 
19.8 
9.1 
::::: 
1 
1 
9 
8 
7 
7 
2 
3 
6 
6 
5 
1 
16.9 
17.4 
31.6 
29.8 
22.3 
27.3 
20.7 
29.1 
29.1 
29.0 
38.0 
11. 7 
111.2 
Odessa 
114 5 
Chevalier II 
"32.^9 
'25." 8 
23.5 
23.0 
15.0 
19.2 
21.8 
17.8 
26.8 
29.6 
39.2 
'20 A 
20.9 
23.9 
25.1 
14.9 
14.7 
38.5 
40.7 
22.4 
23.9 
74.3 
66.9 
51.6 
66.7 
32.0 
27.8 
25.0 
15.4 
10.4 
111.7 
Hannchen 
105.3 
Nepal 
18.4 
74.1 
Silver King 
17.7 

86.4 
Manchuria 
88.1 
Chevalier 
37.2 
23.4 
23.0 
23 2 
128 8 
Himalaya 

17.5 
15.2 
23.7 
37.9 
38.0 
62.7 
65.6 
75.9 
17.5 
91.2 
Coast 
25.4 
7.1 
12.8 
11.7 
93.2 
Trebi 
28. 8! 34. 6 
109.2 
White Smyrna 
101.7 
LINCOLN, NEBR. 
Results of the varietal experiments at Lincoln, Nebr., were obtained through 
the courtesy of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and are presented 
in Table 48. Barley experiments were conducted at three distinct periods, in 
1900 and 1901, from 1905 to 1912, inclusive, and from 1917 to 1921, inclusive. 
Three varieties were tested for both years in the first period. Of these, Black 
Hull-less (C. I. No. 596) produced the highest average, with Russian Naked (C. 
I. No. 2815) second and Sisolsk (C. I. No. 89) third. This latter variety was 
originally grown in the extremely cold regions of northern Russia, so it is not 
surprising that it was surpassed by these hull-less sorts, even though they are 
low-yielding barleys. 
Eight varieties were grown in the second period, among which Black Hull-less 
e,nd Russian Naked again appear. These tv^'o barleys were grown in the years 
1908 to 1910, inclusive. Black Hull-less was still the better of the two, although 
they were both surpassed by Oderbrucker (C. I. No. 1517). This latter variety 
was grown for four years, 1907 to 1910, inclusive, producing an average yield of 
135 per cent of the weighted mean. Tennessee Winter (C. I. No. 257) M'as the 
only variety grown in all the eight years of the second period. It produced very 
high yields for the first four years but was a complete failure during the last four. 
The winters are usually too severe for the successful cultivation of winter barley 
in Nebraska. Four varieties from an English seed firm were introduced in 1909. 
None of these seemed promising, and with the exception of Garton (C. I. No. 
2816), which was grown again in 1910, they were dropped from the experiment. 
