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Table 72. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the Sherman County 
Branch Station, Mora, Oreg., in part or all of the 12 years from 1910 to 1921 j 
inclusive — C ontin u ed 
Summarized Digest, Showing the Relative Performance of 13 Representative Varieties 
[Explanation. — The asterisk (*) indicates that the two varieties to which it relates were not grown in the 
same years. Under " Data shown" P= Percentage yield and Y= Years comparable] 
Varieties and percentages 
Thirteen representative varieties are compared in the summarized digest of 
Table 72. Of these, Peruvian (C. I. No. 935) produced the highest yields. It is 
a North African barley of the Coast group. Second in point of yield was Club 
Mariout (C. I. No. 261), also a North African barley but not of the Coast type. 
Trebi (C. I. No. 936) produced very high yields. Considering the low precipita- 
tion in this part of the Columbia Basin it would hardly be expected that Trebi 
would be so successful here. However, the soil in this region absorbs water quite 
readily and has a high capacity for retaining it. Following Trebi are two hvbrid 
sorts, Flynn (C. I. No. 1311) and Meloy (C. I. No. 1176), both of which have 
been distributed from the More station. Flynn is a smooth-awned barley and 
Meloy a hooded one. The stiff awns of barley cause many farmers to object to 
its cultivation. The smooth-awned and hooded sorts are not open to this objec- 
tion. Flynn came from a cross of a smooth-awned barley on Club Mariout, 
which parent it has almost equaled in yield. Meloy is by far the best of the 
hooded barleys widely tested in the West, producing higher yields and shattering 
less than any other hooded hybrid. 
In the earlier years a number of winter barleys were grown, but they were all 
dropped from the experiments after 1916. Texas Winter (C. I. No. 554) produced 
the highest average yield of those tested for five years. While a small acreage 
of winter barley is grown successfully in this basin, the possibilities of winter- 
killing are too great for the crop to become of much commercial importance. 
White Smyrna (C. I. No. 658) was grown for the full 12 years of the experi- 
ments, producing an average yield of 107 per cent of the weighted mean. Hann- 
chen (C. I. No. 531) was also grown during the entire period, giving an average 
yield of 104 per cent of the weighted mean. Beldi Dwarf (C. I. No. 190) produced 
fair yields, but was not so good as either of the two just mentioned for the 12 
years. 
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