DRY FARMING IN SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING 
11 
Table 5. — -Yields of barley grown by different methods at the Archer Field Station 
from 1914 t° 1923, inclusive 
Yields per acre 
(bushels) 
Treatment and previous 
crop 
Plats 
aver- 
aged 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
Aver- 
age, 
1915 
to 
1923 
Fall plowed: 
1 
29.8 
5.2 
10.8 
23.4 
0.3 
1.5 
7.3 
2.5 
2.9 
9.3 
Spring plowed: 
Barley 
Oats 
1 
1 
"12.5" 
31.3 
35.6 
6.5 
17.3 
12.7 
19.0 
38.6 
30.4 
1.1 
5.1 
1.4 
4.3 
10.4 
15.6 
3.2 
1.5 
5.8 
9.2 
12.3 
14.2 
Total or average 
2 

33.5 
6.9 
15.9 
34.5 
3.1 
2.9 
13.0 
2.4 
7.5 
13.3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
35.8 
i 30.6 
10. 4 30. 2 
; 30.4 
U5.8 ; 31.0 
4.2 
1.8 
12.9 
6.6 
13.8 
13.3 
11.5 
17.9 
9.0 
14.8 
7.3 
22.7 
32.5 
30.6 
44.4 

.2 
5.0 
2.0 
5.7 
6.5 
9.4 
5.9 
6.7 
7.7 
8.5 
9.6 
17.3 
11.7 
19.6 
2.0 
2.1 
4.4 
5.1 
9.8 
4.6 
5.0 
10.2 
4.6 
20.6 
9.1 
Listed: Barley 
10.3 
15.1 
Disked: Flax. 
Fallowed . 
11.9 
18.6 
Average of all 8 plats.. 


31.8 
7.3 
13.6 
28.7 
2.4 
5.4 
12.5 
,s 
7.9 
12.6 
1 Interpolated yield. 2 Six plats on prairie sod broken in May, 1913, and fallowed during the summer. 
RESULTS WITH FLAX 
The experiments with flax have been comparatively extensive. 
Flax has been grown under a wide range of cultural methods and 
following the more important crops. The continuously cropped 
plats, including the one alternating with fallow, were discontinued in 
1923. The results are given in Table 6 and show that none of the 
methods under trial have given satisfactory results. The highest 
average yield for the nine years from 1915 to 1923, inclusive, was 
<* s /a /e 20 
£/<S7T£:&.' £ts<?/Z>/L/^V 
^/csv*r^~z? ■■ <?o&/v 
==3 
Fig 7. — Average acre yields of barley grown by different methods at the Archer Field Station for 
the nine years from 1915 to 1923, inclusive 
3.8 bushels on disked corn ground. The next highest yields were 3.6 
bushels on spring-plowed wheat stubble and 3.3 bushels on spring- 
plowed corn ground. Such yields do not make flax a serious com- 
petitor of other crops. 
Flax was grown in these experiments only on old land. The chief 
difficulty with flax under this condition is its inability to compete 
with weeds, particularly with the Russian this tie. On one plat it 
was grown in intertilled strips. Using the grain drill three rows were 
sown and three left blank for cultivation. The weeds within the 
rows remained as much of a problem as in the ordinary sowings. 
The results of some experiments in 1923 indicate the possibility of 
