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variety yields a little more than the Fife varieties, hut not cmite as 
much as the durums. 
Table XUI gives the annual and average yields of the leading 
variety in each of the groups for 1913. 1914. and 1915. From this 
table it will be seen that the Fretes leads, with the Pelissier second 
and the Marquis third. The Marquis has been grown at Moccasin 
for only three years. During that time it has been among the highest 
yielders and is also of high milling quality. A view of plats of the 
Marquis and Beloturka varieties, the latter a durum wheat, is shown 
in figure 7. 
Fig. 7.— End view of plats of the Marquis and Belotarka wheats . the latter a durum variety. (From 
a photograph lent by the Office oi Exhibits. U. S. Department of Agriculture.) 
Table XVII. — -Annual arid average yields of the leading variety in each group of spring 
wheat groicn at the Judith Basin substation. Moccasin. Mont., during three years. 
191-3 to 1915. inclusive. 
C I. 
No. 
Yield per ac 
re (bu 
shels). 
C L 
No. 
Yield per ao 
re (bus 
hels). 
Group and variety. 
1913 
1914 
1915 
Aver- 
age. 
Group and variety. 
1913 
1914 
1915 
Aver- 
age. 
Durum group: 
Pelissier 
Fife group: 
Marquis 
1584 
3641 
32.0 
33.5 
26.5 
23.7 
42.2 
42,3 
33.6 
33.2 
Preston group: 
Fretes 
\Lis;e'.:ane-'U~: 
Galgalos 
1596 
2398 
35.2 
3a 7 
25.7 
24.5 
42,5 
40.5 
34.5 
31.9 
Varietal Experiments ix Nursery Rows. 
The nursery work with spring wheat has been conducted along the 
same general lines as that with winter wheat. The work was started 
