TESTS OF BAELEY VARIETIES IN" AMERICA 163 
wide range of territory but has not been outstanding at any place. 
At some points it has produced very high yields, but the number of 
years it has been in the tests has been too few to determine its value. 
HANNCHEN (C. I. NO. 531) 
Hannchen (C. I. No. 531) was introduced into the United States 
by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the United 
States Department of Agriculture in April, 1904. It was originated 
by the Svalof Plant-Breeding Association of Svalof, Sweden, and is a 
2-rowed barley of the Hamia type. (PL I, B.) In 1921 at Aberdeen, 
Idaho, the average length of the internodes of 25 spikes was 3.4 milli- 
meters. 
Hannchen has given by far the best yields and has exhibited a 
much wider range than any of the other barleys imported from 
Svalof. Although coming from the very different climate of northern 
Europe it has proved to be of especial value in regions of low rainfall 
in the United States. In the past five years it has been among the 
best five varieties at 13 stations located between Eureka, S. Dak., 
and Burns, Oreg. 
ALPHA (C. I. NO. 959) 
Alpha (C. I. No. 959), shown in Plate I, C, is a 2-rowed selection 
from a cross of Manchuria X Champion of Vermont. It was pro- 
duced in the cooperative breeding experunents conducted by the 
United States Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station at St. Paul, Minn. It was later tested 
and distributed by the agricultural experiment station at Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y. It has produced high yields on the 
farms in New York State and its acreage is increasing. 
WHITE SMYRNA (C. I. NO. 195) 
Received by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of 
the United States Department of Agriculture from Smyrna, Asia 
Minor, on November 15, 1901, White Smyrna (C. I. No. 195) is a 
2-rowed bearded barley with an average density of 3.6 millimeters 
at Aberdeen, Idaho, in 1921. (PI. I, E.) It has been widely tested 
at the experiment stations in the western half of the United States 
and is the most drought resistant of any of the varieties so far tested. 
The straw is very short, and the head when fully emerged usually 
remains about half inclosed in the boot. In point of yield it has 
done particularly well in sections of Montana, Wyoming, western 
South Dakota, northern Colorado, Idaho, and eastern Oregon. 
White Smyrna (C. I. No. 910) is a selection of this variety which 
had done particularly w^ell at Moccasm, Mont. 
White Smyrna under numbers C. I. 195, 658, or 910 has been one 
of the five highest yielding varieties at 22 stations in the past five 
years. These cover an area from Eureka, S. Dak., to Chico, Calif., 
and from Havre, Mont., to Tribune, Kans. 
WHITE SMYRNA (C. I. NO. 658) 
White Smyrna (C. I. No. 658) differs only in a few minor details 
from White Sm.j^rna (C. I. No. 195). It has been grown under the 
name ^'Ouchac,^' or '^Ouchac Sm^Tua," at a number of the western 
stations. The most characteristic difference in the two Wliite 
