170 BULLETIX 1334, r. S. DEPAET^IEXT OF AGEICULTUEE 
BLUE LONG HEAD (C. I. NO. 2685) 
The Blue Long Head variety has been widely tested at Canadian 
expeiinient famis. It is mentioned in the Canadian Experimental 
Farms Report of 1896 (p. 17). A specimen seen at Ottawa in 1922 
indicated that Blue Long Head belongs to the Coast group of barieys. 
It is not quite typical of the Coast group, but is of importance in 
marking the limits of the ecological districts, since it was the only 
barley grown in Canada which belonged to the Coast group. It 
was one of the highest yielding varieties at Indian Head, Saskatche- 
wan, while in eastern Canada it produced veiy low yields. Yields 
of Blue Long Head at points in the West other than Indian Head 
were not so high as might be expected. 
PERUVIAN (C. L NO. 935) 
Peruvian (C. I. Xo. 935) is a pedigreed selection made in the 
cooperative breeding experiments conducted by the Ignited States 
Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station at St. Paul, ^Nlinn. This barley also belongs to 
the Coast group, but it differs from Coast (C. I. No. 690) in several 
respects. At Aberdeen, Idaho, in 1921 it had a culm length of 
97 cm., which was the longest of aU the barleys of the Coast type. 
The spike, while more erect, was not so dense as Coast or Stavi'opol, 
the density being 3.7 mm. The seed length was ll.!? mm., the longest 
of aU the barleys tested at Aberdeen in that year. The length of 
kernel is one of the conspicuous charactei^ which differentiate it 
from Coast. PeiTivian produced exceptionally high yields at Moro, 
Oreo;., in the veai^ in which it was tested. 
BELDI GL\NT (C. I. NO. 2777) 
This barley undoubtedly belongs to the Coast group and is a 
variety of the Peruvian type. It was apparently substituted for 
the original Beldi (C. I. Xo. 190) at Davis. Calif', and distributed 
to the stations at Gooding, Aberdeen (Idaho). Bozeman (Mont."), 
Moccasin (Mont.), and PuUman (Wash.). At Pullman, Davis, and 
Aberdeen (irrigated) it was the second highest yielding spring barley 
for the years in which it was gro^vn. 
BELDI DWARF (C. I. NO. 190) 
The Beldi Dwarf variety was first introduced into the L'nited 
States from Algeria by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Intro- 
duction on September 26, 1901. It is a 6-rowed bearded barley with 
short straw. In Algeria it was grown on the saline soils in the 
vicinity of the Sahara Desert. It has been gi'own at most of the 
western stations, where its region of best adaptation v\'ould be 
expected. Although a good variety it has not proved to be superior 
at any of the stations where tested. It seems to have done best at 
Chico. Calif., where it ranked tliird in point of }4eld compared with 
the other varieties grown in the same yeai^. 
CALIFORNTA MARIOLT (C. I. NO, 1455) 
Tlie California Mariout barley, according to Prof. G. W. Hendry, 
of the California Agricultural Experiment Station, was secured from 
the E. Clements Horst Co., of San Francisco, from whose London 
