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because of its liigh. yield and good appearance. Of the varieties 
grown in the field plats at Moro from 1918 to 1921, inclusive, Flynn 
was exceeded in yield only by Club Mariout and Peruvian. This 
barley is now being tested at a number of experiment stations where 
Club Mariout has done well. It now seems to be a very promising 
sort in these localities. The potential importance of this type of 
barley is great. The rough awns of the varieties now grown are 
objectionable, and if smooth-awned sorts which yield well can be 
produced they will be greatly preferred by farmers. 
WINTER CLUB (C. I. NO. 592) 
Winter Club (C. I. No. 592) is a bearded 6-rowed barley with a 
short compact head. (PL III, fig. 2, D.) It has been grown com- 
mercially for a number of years in Utah, usually under the name Utah 
Winter or White Winter. It is one of the oldest t^^pes of barley 
known, having been cultivated in western Europe before historical 
times. It is plausible that the dense 2-rowed barleys came from 
crosses of this 6-rowed and a lax 2-rowed sort. This variety does 
not have so pronounced a winter habit as most other winter barleys. 
At Burns, Oreg., it yielded very well when spring sown. At PuU- 
man, Wash., it also produced fair yields as a^ spring barley. As a 
winter barley at Pullman it made the highest average }deld of aU 
varieties grown in the same years. 
TENNESSEE WINTER (C. I. NO. 257) 
Tennessee Winter (C. I. No. 257) is the dominant variety among the 
winter barleys. Its origin is not known. The parent stock has long 
been grown in Tennessee. Somewhat similar varieties have been 
received from Switzerland and the Balkans. It has been tested at a 
number of the experiinent stations and is found to be the most frost 
resistant of all winter barleys. It is a 6-rowed bearded sort. While 
this barley seems particularly well adapted to the growing conditions 
of Tennessee, it has also produced high yields at Arlington Experi- 
ment Farm in Virginia, at Athens, Ga., and at State College, N. Mex. 
At Wooster, Ohio, and Blacksburg, Va., the highest yielding winter 
barleys were of the Tennessee Winter group. 
ARLINGTON AWNLESS (C. I. NO. 702) 
Arlington Awnless (C. I. No. 702) was developed by selection from 
a hybrid made between Tennessee Winter (C. I. No. 257) and Black 
Arabian (C. I. No. 202). This variety was originated by H. B. 
Derr, formerly of the Office of Cereal Investigations of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. It is a 6-rowed awnless hulled 
barley with a lax spike. Because of its earliness and awnless char- 
acter it was thought it would become an important winter barley. 
The rachis, however, is very brittle, which causes much loss of grain 
by shattering. It is inferior to Nakano Wase (C. I. No. 754), another 
awnless variety. The latter is a Japanese barley which is quite 
winter hardy, but does not yield well enough to warrant extensive 
culture. 
