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BULLETIN 1334^ XJ. S. DEPAKTMEKT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 52. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the McPherson 
(Kans.) Experiment Farm in some or all of the four years from 1906 to 1909, 
inclusive 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station] 
Variety 
Acre yields (bushels) 
1 
C. L 
No. 
Years 
grown 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
20 
30.2 
4.0 
25.1 
20.9 
20.1 
90 
51.5 
10.4 
33.9 
22.5 
29.6 
181 
28.7 
3.5 
23.9 
23.1 
19.8 
182 
44.5 
9.9 
30.5 
27.1 
28.0 
183 
184 
37.8 
36.2 
4.0 
5.8 
26.2 
28.2 
22.7 
23.0 
21.7 
185 
33.1 
4.1 
26.8 
24.2 
4 
22.1 
190 
191 
23.5 
48.9 
2.1 
10.5 
15.3 
17.1 
13.6 
24.0 
19.4 
195 
50.6 
3.3 
22.3 
22.8 
24.7 
199 
45.4 
9.1 
16.8 
16.4 
21.9 
205 
51.8 
4.8 
32.5 
25.3 
28.6 
210 
596 
28.2 
30.4 
.6 
2.1 
15.6 
15.7 
14.8 
15.0 
11.9 
212 
27.3 
2.0 
18.3 
18.0 
16.4 
^03 
40.7 
.7 
16.4 
19.4 
19.3 
235 
31.1 
5.6 
14.1 
25.2 
19.0 
237 
35.2 
4.7 
15.3 
23.6 
19.7 
240 
30.5 
4.9 
14.5 
23.6 
18.4 
261 
28.3 
3.4 
25.4 
7.9 
16.3 
263 
264 
32.2 
29.7 
2.5 
.8 
4.9 
4.1 
13.2 
11.5 
265 
31.3 
31.3 
507 
26.1 
3.9 
12.7 
20.8 
15.9 
549 
40.9 
4.1 
25.4 
15.8 
21.5 
675 
12.8 
23.1 
2 
17.9 
187 
8.1 
17.3 
2 
12.7 
632 
2.2 
4.4 
2 
3.3 
529 
13.5 
13.7 
2 
13.6 
Percent- 
age of 
weighted 
mean 
Perm 
Caucasian 
Kennie Improved 
Odessa 
Nepean 
Common 
Baxter 
Beldi Dwarf 
Black Smyrna 
White Smyrna... 
Albacete 
Yenidje 
Baku 
Black Hull-less... 
Success 
Hanna 
Manchuria 
Do 
Do 
Club Mariout 
Garton 
Do 
Do 
Horsford 
Coast 
Gatami 
Svanhals 
Primus 
Princess 
102.0 
150.3 
100.5 
142.1 
115.2 
116.8 
112.2 
69.0 
121.8 
125.4 
111.2 
145.2 
75.1 
76.1 
83.2 
98.0 
96.4 
100.0 
93.4 
82.7 
67.0 
58.4 
87.4 
80.7 
109.1 
94.7 
67.2 
17.5 
72.0 
HAYS, KANS. 
In cooperation with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, barley yields 
were obtained at the Fort Hays branch station in 12 of the 19 years from 1903 to 
1921, inclusive. These are presented in Table 53, and a comparison of the jields 
of 10 representative varieties is also shown. The best of these was Ellis (C. I. 
No. 2107), a local barley. It is a mixture of several strains, with Coast tvpes 
predominant. Club Mariout (C. I. No. 261), Stavropol (C. I. No. 2105), "and 
Coast (C. I. No. 690), followed in the order named. Although Stavropol came 
from southern Russia, it is of the same general group as Coast and Club Mariout. 
The latter was very badly mixed at this station and its yields may mean little. 
Fifth in yield is Beldi Dwarf (C. I. No. 190), a North African barley. While 
White Smyrna (C. I. No. 195) ranks only sixth in this varietal comparison, it 
produced an average yield of 117 per cent of the weighted mean for the 11 years 
in which it was grown. The Manchuria barleys and Hannchen (C. I. No. 531) 
are not adapted to western Kansas, the climate there being too dry for the 
successful growing of spring barleys from humid climates. 
Table 53 shows that several winter varieties were tested during the period 
from 1913 to 1916, inclusive. Tennessee Winter (C. I. No. 257) was the best of 
these. However, the winters here are usually too severe for the successful 
growing of these sorts. In 1920 five additional spring varieties were introduced. 
Two of these, Manchuria (C. I. Nos. 1275 and 1473), produced very poor yields 
and were not included in 1921. Meloy (C. I. No. 1176) averaged 27.5 biishels 
for the two years. This is a fairly good yield for a hooded barley, but Meloy 
has ranked relatively high at a number of the other stations. It is the only 
hooded spring barley that has proved at all successful in any of the experiments 
reported in the drier sections of the West. Odessa (C. I. No. 182) was not 
promising in 1920 and 1921, the two years in which it was grown. Of those 
tested, the Coast-Stavropol barleys are unmistakably the types best adapted 
to this region. 
