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were somewhat better than in 1920, although thej- did not compare favorably 
with the winter sorts. The acre yields varied from 3.2 to 17.1 bushels. 
It is evident that the fall-sown barleys are more successful than the spring- 
sown sorts in the vicinity of Stillwater. According to Adrian Daane, of the Okla- 
homa station, relatively good yields have been obtained from the spring varieties 
when fall sown in the eastern part of the State, where they furnish winter pasture 
and later a crop of grain. In western Oklahoma the spring sorts, Coast and 
Stavropol, are probably grown along with the winter barleys of the Tennessee 
Winter type. Both Coast and Stavropol are extensively grown in western 
Kansas and have spread southward through Oklahoma into northern Texas. 
Barley as feed is considered an excellent substitute for kafir and corn where 
these crops have failed. 
TEXAS 
Experimental data on barley production in Texas are very limited. jMost of 
the varietal records were obtained 15 or 20 j^ears ago. It would appear that 
barley is not an important crop in Texas. According to A. H. Leidigh, agrono- 
mist. College Station, Tex., "From a practical standpoint, everj'thing centers 
around Tennessee Winter barle3^ Possibly, however, there are indications of 
the importance of other things." 
Most of the barley acreage is in northwestern Texas adjacent to Oklahoma, 
where the Stavropol and Coast varieties of western Kansas and Oklahoma 
probabh" might be grown. On the remainder of the acreage Tennessee Winter 
doubtless is the prevailing type. 
NEW HOPE, TEX. 
The barley yields recorded at New Hope, near Dallas, in 1903 and 1904 are 
shown in Table 90. These jields were obtained in cooperation with the Texas 
Agricultural Experiment Station. Nine varieties were grown for the two years, 
but the period is too short to justify the drawing of reliable conclusions. The 
two varieties which produced the best average yields were Svanhals (C. I. No. 
187) and Hanna (C. I. No. 203), both of which are 2-rowed humid-spring sorts 
usually grown in cooler regions of the North. Telli (C. I. No. 194), a barle}^ of 
the Coast type, was third, and Bohemian (C. I. No. 188), another barley of the 
Hanna group, was fourth in point of yield. None of the varieties of the Ten- 
nessee Winter group were included in the test. While the spring barleys appear 
to have produced high j-ields in the two j'ears they were grown, the period was 
not of sufficient length to establish their value. These same barlej^s have not 
generally shown themselves adapted to cultivation under climatic conditions 
such as exist here. 
Table 90. — Annual acre yields of varieties of harley grown at New Hope, Tex., in 
1903 and 1904 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station] 
Variety 
C.I. 
No. 
Acre yields 
(bushels) 
Years 
grown 
Average 
yield 
(bus.) 
Percent- 
age of 
weighted 
mean 
1903 
1904 
Beldi Dwarf 
190 
194 
200 
187 
189 
203 
188 
197 
192 
63.6 
74.5 
59.3 
74.5 
60.0 
70.3 
58.1 
36.1 
51.1 
20.0 
34.0 
45.0 
40.0 
35.0 
40.0 
46.0 
20.0 
37.0 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
9 
2 
2 
41.8 
54.3 
52.1 
57.3 
47.5 
55.1 
52.1 
28.1 
44.1 
87:i 
Telli... . 
113.1 
Chevalier II 
108.5 
Svanhals 
119.4 
99.0 
Hanna 
114.8 
Bohemian 
108.5 
Hankow .. . 
58.5 
Do. 
91.9 
MARILLO, TEX. 
The data from the Amarillo Cereal Field Station found in Table 91 were ob- 
tained independently by the Office of Cereal Investigations. In 1906 and 1907 
six varieties were grown, and all except Tennessee Winter were spring sorts. 
Tennessee Winter (C. I. No. 257) was the only variety tested for the entire 
period from 1906 to 1919, inclusive. . In 1906 the spring barleys did not com- 
