UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
|? BULLETIN No. 336 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
February 10, 1916 
CEREAL EXPERIMENTS IN MARYLAND AND 
VIRGINIA. 
By T. R. Stanton, Scientific Assistant, Office of Cereal Investigations. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Introduction 1 
Cereal production in Maryland and Virginia . . 2 
Physical factors 3 
Nature of the experiments. 6 
Conditions of the plat experiments 7 
Experiments with winter wheat 9 
Experiments with winter spelt and emmer. . 
Experiments with winter rye 
Experiments with winter oats 
Experiments with winter barley 
Experiments with spring-sown grains 
Summary 
INTRODUCTION. 
Experiments with cereals have been conducted cooperatively since 
1904 at College Park, Md., by the Maryland Agricultural Experiment 
Station and the Office of Cereal Investigations. 1 Similar experiments 
have been conducted by the Office of Cereal Investigations on the 
Arlington Farm, Rosslyn, Va., since 1907. 2 These experiments have 
consisted mainly of varietal tests and extensive breeding operations 
with the most important winter cereals. This bulletin is for the 
most part a report of the varietal tests. The varietal testing has 
J The preliminary cereal work conducted at College Park, Md., prior to 1907 was under the supervision 
-of Mr. Mark Alfred Carleton, Cerealist of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Mr. H. A. Miller, a scientific 
assistant in the Office of Cereal Investigations, was in immediate charge. On October 1, 1907, when cooper- 
ative cereal investigations were begun with the Maryland station , Mr. V. M. Shoesmith, then agronomist 
at the station, was made collaborator. From the time of Mr. Shoesmith's resignation on January 1, 1908, 
Mr. C. W. Nash, assistant agronomist at the station, acted as collaborator to September 1, 1909. On the 
latter date Mr. N. Schmitz was appointed agronomist of the Maryland station, since which time he has 
been collaborator. 
2 The Arlington Farm is located in Virginia on the southern bank of the Potomac River, just opposite 
and to the west of the city of Washington, D. C. The experimental work with cereals has been under the 
direction of the men in charge of wheat, oat, and barley investigations in the Office of Cereal Investigations. 
From 1907 to 1912 Mr. H. B. Derr supervised the work with barley and wheat at the Arlington Farm. Since 
that time the work with these cereals has been in charge of Drs. H. V. Harlan and C. E. Leighty, respec- 
tively. Mr. C. W. Warburton has been in charge of the work with oats during practically the entire period. 
During the summer of 1908 Mr. T. B. Mackall assisted with the work at Arlington Farm; in the summers 
of 1909 and 1910 Mr. O. H. Saunders rendered similar service. The writer was appointed agent in the 
Office of Cereal Investigations on April 17, 1911, and scientific assistant in the same office on May 17, 1912. 
Behashad direct charge of the work at Arlington Farm since the former date. 
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