TESTS OF BARLEY VARIETIES IN AMERICA 167 
land and for which they pay a very high price. The sample experi- 
mented with, of this variety, was very small, and the season was too 
far advanced before it was received to test it properly. It, however, 
came up vigorously, and appears to be of robust growth, but had not 
time to mature. " 
In 1889 the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph received this 
barley from Germany and later sent it to the Wisconsin Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Madison, where it was first tested in 1899 as 
Wisconsin No. 55. From Madison it was widely distributed, and it 
and later selections from it made by the Wisconsin station are the 
barleys commonly grown by the farmers of Wisconsin. In its appear- 
ance and general botanical description it closely resembles Manchuria. 
However, it is not so widely adapted to growing conditions of the 
northern Mississippi Valley as is Manchuria. 
STELLA (C. I. NO. 2678) 
Dr. C. E. Saunders produced a great many hybrid varieties of 
barley at Ottawa, Canada. These were distributed to the Dominion 
experiment farm.s for testing. Stella is one of the best of these hy- 
brids. It is a selection from a cross of Swedish X Baxter. The 
Swedish parent was a 2-rowed barley received from Harris & Co., of 
London, England. Baxter is a 6-rowed selection mth a peculiarly 
short kernel with thin glumes. The Stella hybrid looks much like a 
Manchuria barley and has a short-haired rachilla. This variety 
produced good yields at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; 
Nappan, Nova Scotia; Ottawa, Ontario; and Rosthern, Saskatchewan. 
YALE (C. I. NO. 1592) 
Yale is one of the barley hybrids which were produced by Dr. C. 
E. Saunders at Ottawa, Canada. It was a selection from a cross of 
Duckbill X Rennie Improved. The strain of Yale now being grown 
at Ottawa is a Manchuria type of barley with a short-haired rachilla. 
Yale was the best of the hybrid varieties tested at Brandon, Manitoba. 
At most places it was not the equal of Stella, but it is unquestionably 
among the better hybrid varieties produced by Doctor Saunders. 
HYBRID (C. I. NO. 2935) 
This barley is a 6-rowed smooth-awned hybrid selected from a cross 
of Lion X Manchuria. It was developed in the cooperative breeding 
experiments conducted by the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture and the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station at St. Paul, 
Minn. This hybrid is of special interest, as very few smooth-awned 
barleys have produced high yields. At Waseca, Minn., it was one 
of the highest yielding sorts for the three years in which it was grown. 
It also gave good yields at Grand Rapids, Minn. It is hoped that 
it will be more widely tested in the Manchuria regions. 
MINSTURDI (C. I. NO. 1556) 
Minsturdi (C. I. No. 1556) was developed in the cooperative 
breeding experiments conducted by the L^nited States Department 
of Agriculture and the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station 
at St. Paul, Minn. It is a 6-rowed bearded hybrid variety selected 
