TESTS OF BAELEY VARIETIES IX AMERICA 
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BLACKSBURG, VA. 
The yields of barley varieties grown at Blacksburg, Va. (Table 82), were 
obtained through the courtesy of tlie Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. 
During the years from 1914 to 1921, inclusive, 20 winter barleys were tested, 
and 17 spring varieties from 1917 to 1919, inclusive. In 1919 the spring varieties 
were destroj^ed by extremely wet weather. 
All of the winter varieties grown in 1914 were selections made at the Virginia 
station. Five of these were grown during the entire eight j-ears of the experi- 
ments, all of them producing comparatively high average yields with the excep- 
tion of C. I. No. 3153. Because of crop failure no yields were recorded for the 
years 1917 and 1921. In 1918 eight winter barleys were introduced and con- 
tinued through 1921. Union Winter (C. I. No. 583), a barley of the Tennessee 
Winter group, produced the highest average yield of all varieties for these four 
years. C. I. No. 3153 was second in point of yield for this period. Its average 
for the eight years tested was quite low. Following C. I. No. 3153 are two other 
selections, C. I. Nos. 3164 and 3163. Both of these are selections from C. I. No. 
3154, the first being 6-rowed and the second 2-rowed. It is to be regretted 
that there is no record of the source of the stock from which the early selections 
were made. Both Arlington Awnless (C. I. No. 702) and Tennessee Winter 
(C. I. No. 257) produced comparatively high yields during this 4-year period. 
Arlington Awnless is not usually a high-yielding sort and it shatters very badly. 
Table 82. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the Virginia Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station {at Blacksburg) in part or all of the eight years from 
1914 to 1921, inclusive 
[Data obtained through the courtesy of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station] 
Variety 
C.I. 
No. 
Acre jdelds (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
weighted 
mean 
"Winter barley: 
Virginia Selection - 
3148 
3149 
3150 
3151 
3152 
3153 
3154 
3155 
3156 
3157 
3158 
3159 
702 
3160 
257 
583 
3161 
3162 
3163 
3164 
3166 
575 
913 
696 
911 
3165 
1246 
908 
893 
889 
319 
187 
595 
915 
916 
3167 
3180 
12.5 
20.3 
9.9 
6.8 
13.5 
3.6 
9.4 
8.9 
12.5 
6.8 
5.2 
L3 
25.4 
44.0 
57,0 
39.4 
28.1 
7.2 
40.5 
21.6 
31.6 
44.0 
26.6 
17.8 

26.6 
18.1 
30.2 

10.8 
32.7 
9.6 

45.9 

3 
8 
8 
8 
3 
8 
4 
4 
3 
8 
3 
2 
4 
4 
i 
4 
4 
4 
4 
3 
3 
3 
1 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
1 
3 
3 
3 
3 
1 
12.6 
19.1 
18.7 
16.2 
13.9 
11.6 
20.7 
10.0 
14.7 
19.3 
10.6 
9.5 
15.3 
13.7 
14.7 
18.2 
10.7 
8.3 
16.0 
16.1 
11.6 
11.6 
12.2 
15.3 
16.2 
10,5 
9.3 
13.3 
11.4 
11.0 
12.6 
15.9 
12.0 
11.7 
11.1 
13.7 
12,9 
66.0 
Do 



10.3 
11.2 
9.6 
17.5 
20.3 
17.5 
34.4 
32.7 
25.8 



134,5 
Do - 
131.7 
Do 
114, 1 
Do 
72.8 
Do- . 



13.4 
21.7 
36.1 

81.7 
Do 
120.3 
Do 
58,1 
Do - 
77,0 
Do 

10.3 
16.5 
30.9 

135,9 
Hull-less 
55.5 
Virginia Selection 
46.1 
Arlington Avrn- 
less 
9.7 
7.2 
11.3 
13.2 
16.2 
6.9 
14.9 
17.2 
15.5 
14.5 
16.3 
22.3 
20.3 
19.9 
21.7 
11.0 
17.9 
25.1 
26.5 



29.2 
27.5 
27.5 
37.8 
15.5 
8.6 
24.1 
20.6 








127.5 
Winter .. 
114,2 
Tennessee Winter 
122.5 
Union Winter.. . . 
151,7 
89,2 
Tennessee 
69.2 
Virginia Selection 
133,3 
Do... 
134-2 
Spring barley: 
Manchuria 
19.2 
20.3 
20.3 
15.3 
26.5 
20.6 
17.2 
22.9 
19.6 
18.9 
27.1 
15.9 
19.7 
26.0 
25.6 
20.8 
12.9 
94.3 
Gatarai 
94.3 
Eagle 
99.2 
Black Hull-less 
105.5 
Featherston . 
22.2 
11.0 
10.7 
17.1 
14.6 
14.1 
10.6 

s 


131,7 
Chevalier 
85,4 
Black Egyptian 
75,6 
Luth 
108.1 
Proskowetz 
9Z7 
Rperi Triumph 
89,4 
Hanna . 
102.4 
Svanhals 
109.7 
Nepal 
16.2 
9.0 
7.7 
20.4 




97,6 
Servian 
95,1 
Odessa 
90,2 
Manchuria 
111,4 
Two-Row Hull- 
less . ... 
89.0 
1 
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