CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT JUDITH BASIN SUBSTATION. 39 
per acre. Very satisfactory stands and yields have been obtained 
from this rate, although the rate-of-seeding experiment seems to in- 
dicate that a little heavier seeding would give better results. 
COMPARISON OF THE LEADING VARIETIES OF CEREALS. 
Table XXV gives the annual and average yields (in pounds per 
acre) of the leading varieties of each of the cereals at Moccasin for 
five years, 1910, 1911, and 1913 to 1915, inclusive. This table is 
presented so that a comparison may be made of the actual yield of 
grain of each of the cereals. It will be seen from Table XXV that 
on the average the White Smyrna barley produces more pounds of 
grain per acre than any of the other cereals. The Kharkof winter 
wheat is second and the Sixty-Day oats third in the number of 
pounds of gram produced per acre. 
The average farm value per acre of each of the crops is also given 
in Table XXV. To obtain this value the annual yield of each crop 
was multiplied by the farm price per bushel in Montana on December 
1 of that year, and the annual values for the five years were then 
averaged. Whiter wheat leads in value per acre, with the White 
Smyrna barley second and flax third. 
Table XXV. — Annual and average yields and a verage farm value of the leading variety 
of each of the cereals grown at the Judith Basin substation. Moccasin. Mont., for five 
years 1910, 1911, and 1913 to 1915, inclusive. 
Crop and variety. 
C I. 
No. 
Yield per acre (pounds). 
Acre 
value of 
crop - 
1910 
1911 1913 
1914 
1915 
Aver- 
age. 
Kharkof winter wheat 
Pelissier spring wheat 
Sixty-Day oat 
White Smyrna barley 
Nepal barley 
Russian flax 
1,583 
1,584 
165 
195 
595 
19 
2, 880 
630 
1,056 
590 
984 
2,478 1,866 
1,698 1 1,920 
2,278 2,409 
2,490 3,360 
1,800 2,220 
1.070 930 
1,470 
1,590 
1,888 
2,400 
1,542 
728 
2,964 
2,530 
2, 998 
3,854 
2, 508 
1, 282 
2, 331 
1,673 
2, 126 
2, 540 
1,810 
1,002 
$31. 08 
21. 58 
23.70 
28.42 
18.24 
a 27.09 
a Average for four years, 1911 and 1913 to 1915. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH MINOR CEREALS. 
Twenty-seven varieties of proso have been tested at Moccasin at 
some time during the past eight years. While most of the varieties 
tried will mature seed in a favorable year, the yield is small and in 
some years no seed is produced. For this reason the crop is not 
recommended for the Judith Basin. 
Some early varieties of brown kaoliang and broom corn were 
tried for three years. Owing to the short season and cool nights 
none of them matured seed. 
Emmer and spelt have also been tried, but are not as promising 
as some of the other grain crops. 
