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^^ Table 75. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown on irrigated land at the 
I Harney Valley Branch Station, Burns, Oreg., in part or all of the five years from 
1917 to 1921, inclusive 
[Data for years 1917, 1918, and 1919 were obtained in cooperation with the Oregon Agricultural Experiment 
Station, through whose courtesy the data for 1920 and 1921 were furnished] 
Variety 
C.I. 
No. 
Acre yields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
weighted 
mean 
White SmjTna . . . . . 
658 
187 
531 
690 
592 
261 
610 
2305 
595 
936 
878 
17.5 
11.0 
17.9 
12.5 
7.9 
13.9 
7.5 
43.0 
38.5 
40.0 
35.7 
35.6 
""49.1' 
27.9 
75.0 
61.4 
63.0 
81.3 
80.9 
'"50.'5' 
55.0 
43.1 
70.3 
4 42.8 
106.5 
4 
5 
5 
3 
1 
2 
1 
3 
2 
1 
40.2 
45.0 
40.1 
53.0 
13.9 
21.5 
32.0 
39.2 
59.7 
53.1 
95 9 
Hannchen 
Coast 
107.7 
95.9 
Winter Club . . . . 
121.8 
Club Mariout 
110 3 
Horsford 
35.5 
51 8 
Coast .---.. 
32.0 
28.5 
88.2 
Neoal 
Trebi 
'"52."o' 
58.3 
67.3 
53.1 
30.7 
75.2 
104 7 
Blackhull 
83 
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NEWLANDS, NEV. 
The results of varietal experiments at the Newlands Experiment Farm are 
used through the courtesy of the Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture. The 
yields of these varieties for the period from 1915 to 1919, inclusive, are shown in 
Table 76. Four of the seven varieties tested were grown during the entire period. 
Coast (C. I. No. 626) was the best of these. It produced an average yield of 
34.6 bushels, v/hich was 7.6 bushels higher than that of Hannchen (C. I. No. 
531), its nearest competitor. Kent (C. I. No. 2644), a local barley of the Coast 
tj'-pe, also was superior to Hannchen for the four years from 1915 to 1918, in- 
clusive. It was exceeded only by Coast in that period. Besides Hannchen, 
two other 2-rowed varieties, Svanhals (C. I. No. 187) and Chevalier (C. I. No. 
1142), were grown. Thev do not compare favorably with the two Coast barleys. 
Nepal (C. I. No. 595) was the lowest yielding sort. Trebi (C. I. No. 936), 
grown in the years from 1917 to 1919, inclusive, excelled all other varieties for 
those years with the exception of Coast. 
It is quite obvious that the 2-rowed varieties are not superior here. The bar- 
leys of the Coast type are outstanding in yield at Newlands. 
Table 76. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the Newlands (Nev.) 
Experiment Farm in some or all of the five years from 1915 to 1919, inclusive 
[Data used through the courtesy of the OflBce of Western Irrigation Agriculture] 
Variety 
C.I. 
No. 
Acre J 
ields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
weighted 
mean 
Coast 
626 
187 
531 
595 
2644 
1142 
936 
42.5 
29.9 
32.9 
25.4 
29.9 
36.8 
29.3 
30.3 
26.9 
39.9 
31.3 
20.4 
17.5 
21.7 
10.6 
20.5 
17.4 
23.6 
50.7 
34.8 
34.3 
32.7 
32.0 
35.9 
40.1 
22.4 
16.8 
16.0 
9.6 
18.9 
5 
5 
5 
5 
4 
4 
3 
34.6 
25.7 
27.0 
21.0 
30.6 
25.5 
27.5 
126. 3 
93.8 
Hannchen 
Nepal 
98.5 
76.6 
Kent 
Chevalier * 
102. 3 
96.2 
Trebi 
111.3 
CHICO, CALIF. 
Varietal tests of barley were conducted at Chico, Calif., from 1910 to 1921, 
inclusive. This work was done in cooperation with the Office of Foreign Seed 
and Plant Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture. The 
annual yields from the varietal tests are given in Table 77. Although in recent 
years plats have been rephcated, the results at Chico were not entirely satisfac- 
tory, as the soil used was not sufficiently uniform to give wholly satisfactory 
results. 
