CEREALS AT THE AKRON FIELD STATION Fer 
COMPARISON OF GRAIN CROPS 
Comparisons of the acre yields, in pounds, of all cereals at Akron 
are shown in Tables 32 and 33, and graphically in Figures 28 and 29. 
The yields of the most important varieties of each cereal studied for 
the 15-year period from 1908 to 1922, inclusive, are shown in Table 
32. In Table 33 the yields of the better varieties of each cereal on 
fallow and on cornland during the 6-year period from 1917 to 1922, 
inclusive, are presented. The varieties used in these two compari- 
sons differ somewhat. All of the small grains were grown under 
comparable conditions nearly every year, but the varieties of corn, 
grain sorghum, and proso were not grown under conditions which 
were comparable with the small grains. Usually all the small 
orains were grown on the same part of the station in any one year, and 
the preparation of the soil and date of sowing were approximately 
the same for all the spring varieties. 
TaBLE 32.—Yields of the leading varieties of cereals grown at the Akron Field 
Station, 1908-1922, inclusive 
Acre yield (pounds) 
Crop and |C.I. 
variety | No. | | | | 
1908 | 1909 | 1910 |1911 1912 1913/1914 1915 1916/1917 1918) 1919 | 1920 1921! 1922 
Wirth tee: T | | | | | 
wheat: | ae as | | | 
Turkey---| 1571/1, 188 0)1, 770) 7022, 586) 438)1, 5061, 686)1,902} 510)1,104) (@) {1,302 918) 762| 21,170 
Kharkof_-} 1583/1, 158 0}1, 788) 852/2, 250) 996)1, 5601, 752/1, 572/1,014| 738) 21,056; 966) 780) 852) 1,156 
Spring | | | (S55) 
wheat: | | | | | 
IRCuSS=eo 1584/1, 4821, 416) 948) 636 2,136) 630)1,596)1,896) 864) 468) 222)  528/1,014 546 474) 990 
Converse _| 4141) #888) 912) 936) 7261,392) 498)1,380/1,434) 462) 420) 450 666/1, 008) 402) 648) 815 
Spring oats: | | 
Kherson_-| 459)1, 690)1, 059/1, 107) 397 1, 232)1, 155)2, 141/2, 720) 538) 470) 195 358/1, 254) 790! 822) 1, 062 
Swedish | | | | 
Select... 134/2, 00011, 622) 941) 714 966, 880/1, 558 2, 221| 336) 294 86 138)1, 533) 509| 304 940 
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Spring | | | 
barley: | 
Coast____- 690/1, 853.1, 574/1, 229, 802 1, 848 1, 080/2, 846/3, 797, 998) 854) 389)  490/1, 344) 998'1, 090) 1, 413 
3 Blackhull | 878)1,219 9651, 142) 278 1, 2771, 219|2, 059.3, 701! 946) 955 528) 619} 696) 7781, 301) 1,179 
pel ns | | | | | 
emmer: | 
: | | | 
Vernal____| 1524 838 1, 206) 992) 650)1, ae) 509} 659 2,240) 435) 454) 147) 317/1, 360 202) 291 768 
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1 No winter-wheat varietal plats sown in fall of 3 Yield of increase field. 
1918. 4 Average yield of similar varieties, Erivan and 
2 1919 not included. Fretes. 
No winter wheat was sown in the varietal experiments in the fall 
of 1918. The only winter wheat yields available for 1919 are those 
of increase fields of Kharkof and Kanred. Including this yield, the 
average production of Kharkof wheat in the 15-year period was 1,156 
pounds, as compared with 990 pounds of Peliss durum wheat and 815 
pounds of Converse, a hard red spring wheat. Excluding 1919 
yields, Turkey winter wheat has averaged 1,170 pounds, Kharkof 
1,163 pounds, Peliss 1,023 pounds, and Converse 825 pounds. 
Kherson oat, an early variety, has averaged 1,062 pounds annually 
during the 15 years, as compared with 940 pounds for Swedish Select, 
a midseason oat. The Kherson oat has produced a greater total 
yield than any spring wheat, but less than the best winter wheats. 
Coast barley has produced an average yield of 1,413 pounds in 
the 15-year period, as compared with 1,179 pounds for Blackhull 
barley. When compared with oats, Coast barley has produced on 
