TESTS OF BAELEY VARIETIES IN" AMERICA 
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LEXINGTON, KY. 
The results at the KeDtucky Agricultural Experiment Station at Lexington 
are shown in Table 87. These data, furnished through the courtesy of that station, 
include yields for seven of the years from 1910 to 1917, inclusive. In 1910 both 
winter and spring varieties were tested. The spring-sown barleys produced 
yields much higher than those sown in the fall, 1910 being one of the few favorable 
years for spring-sown varieties in this section. In 1911 the spring-sown varieties, 
with the exception of Franconian (C. I. No. 679), were grown in rod rows instead 
of in plats. The straw was unusually short and the yields very low. Franconian, 
which produced the high yield of 85.5 bushels in 1910, was again grown in 1911 and 
1912, but was quite inferior in both these years. No further tests were made with 
spring-sown barleys. 
It was soon found that the spring varieties when fall sown could not survive the 
winters. In 1910 both Hanna (C. I. No. 287) and Horsford (C. I. No. 610) were 
entirely winterkilled, and Odessa (C. I. No. 182) and Telli (C. I. No. 194) were 
excelled by the winter sorts. None of the spring barleys survived in 1911 and 
1912. 
Mammoth Winter (C. I. No. 220) and Tennessee Winter (C. I. No. 257) are the 
only winter varieties so far tested that have produced uniformly good yields. 
These varieties are almost identical. In 1912 a number of the winter barleys 
winterkilled, and none of these was given further trial. Beardless 20 (C. I. No. 
2745), a hybrid variety, produced a yield of 40.8 bushels in 1917, which was less 
than that of Tennessee Winter. 
Barley is a crop of minor importance in Kentucky. The spring varieties are 
very unreliable. Tennessee Winter and Mammoth Winter seem to be the most 
productive of the winter sorts, and what little barley is gro-^na is of this type. 
Table 87. — Annual acre yields of varieties of barley grown at the Kentucky Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station {at Lexington) in one or more of the eight years from 
1910 to 1917, inclusive 
[Data obtained through the courtesy of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station] 
C.I. 
No. 
Acre yields (bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Aver- 
age 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
"V anety 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1917 
weighted 
mean 
Winter barley: 
Odessa 
182 
194 
220 
257 
287 
518 
554 
610 
519 
187 
529 
408 
647 
702 
703 
156 
648 
351 
159 
731 
711 
2745 
682 
695 
685 
655 
663 
669 
672 
679 
681 
16.3 
20.4 
40.0 
39.0 

33.0 
42.5 

30.5 
3 
1 
16.3 
20.4 
40.8 
39.8 

12.9 
27.2 

32.3 


29.2 









40.8 
40.5 
19.0 
44.5 
47.5 
28.5 
44.5 
25.5 
37.2 
30.0 
50.0 
Telli 
62.6 
Mammoth Winter 
Tennessee Winter 
25.0 
24.5 
31.0 
29.0 
69.0 
65.5 
28.7 
23.3 
51.2 
50.5 
las' 
176.6 
167.2 
14.2 
17.1 
4.5 
11.0 

52.0 
68.1 
Texas Winter 
13.3 
123.1 
Horsford - 
Wisconsin Winter 
22.9 


22.8 


26.7 
49.0 
145.5 

30.0 









Large-Grained Winter 
47.5 
16.4 
170.8 
Arlington Awnless- 
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Virginia Hooded 
Orel 
Pontius 
. 
Turkestan 
Beardless 20 
40.8 
93.2 
Spring barley: 
Heil Hanna 3 
40.5 
19.0 
44.5 
47.5 
28.5 
44.5 
25.5 
85.5 
30.0 
124.2 
Barbarv 
58.3 
136.5 
W^hite Smyrna 
145.7 
87.4 
136.5 
Do 

78.2 
Franconian 
17.0 
9.0 
195.8 
92.0 
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