CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT DICKINSON, N. DAK. 23 
siderably longer than those of the Kubanka. Figure 4 shows the 
heads of some of the more important varieties. The average number 
of heads to the plant produced by the different varieties is two, with 
an average of 25 kernels each. 
MILLING AND BAKING TESTS. 
Although for four years milling and baking tests have been made 
from grain of the wheat varieties grown at Dickinson, the same size 
of mill was used only two years—1911 and 1913—and the results for 
the other two years are not directly comparable. The more impor- 
tant data from the milling tests for 1911 and 1913 are given in Table 
X. This table shows the yield of straight flour and the volume of 
loaf baked from the flour of several varieties of bluestem, durum, 
bearded fife, and fife wheats, together with the yield of grain per 
acre. The groups and varieties are arranged according to their 
average yields of straight flour. : 
TABLE X.—Annual and average yields, percentages of straight flour, and volumes 
of loaves obtained from 15 varieties of wheat grown at the Dickinson, N. Dak., 
substation in 1911 and 1913. 
[The groups and varieties are arranged according to their average yields of straight flour.] 
Yield per acre | Yield of straight Volume of loaf 
(bushels). flour (per cent). (cubic centimeters). 
ne Group and variety. - 
i Aver- Aver- Aver- 
1911 | 1913 age. 1911 1913 age. 1911 1913 age. 
Bluestem: | 
3314 Crossbred (N. Dak. No.318)_| 6.9 27 17 W255 focal 258,041) 2po20 ie 2213) | e2 0267 
3020 Haynes (Minn. No. 169)..... 8.6 2a Sin AGS. Me Toxo EPA PA! 2,320 | 2,260 | 2,290 
Durum: 
4063 Kenbanka NOs S2-e co hece 310) | oled HAGA No | 72.7 -1.-73.9 | 1,950} 1,995 | 1,973 
1440 Reuipamiae se ss oecieies: S08 2080 115.3) led |) 8) 71.5. 1 970),| 1,985) | 1,978 
4064 AGrnaublcarore les 9 aac seems sce onl SOND Na ede ol eercetae GOT 2R Ris ea cepa TROSON |e eee 
Bearded fife: : 
3315 ISRO NS GL edueaseossuesoarers WOE 2659 20035 72.9%) 72 72.5 | 2,080 | 1,970 | 2,025 
3081 Bearded Fife. .... Beige mito tiers Oe eee B2OnOMEl Merah One Ont enle ved) mule 2e2goml e2eliOnl 2223 
3316 Pringles Champlain......... 64 | OAS 56 aebie | 70! dy 7d 2,150 | 2,030 | 2,090 
3328 BRESLOW es aes Le ON Zee 20s eral iee i sOsel wal OSaOi 69 2,080 | 2,020 | 2,055 
3318 Bearded Fife (Velvet Chaff).)...... Bleu ull Prarnatetete | Sa sic GONG a ieeeeeclee cere 235 al Reser 
Fife: 
3329 VRe(eX0 BUTTS) ae ary eee tee Gran iZSrom nlite lis.8 ells | 2S) \P2eLoO) |) 2.220 ule 2a so 
3319 Wihitewhiteseeone se sap as ote: SOM ea Oe On cl ai2eSe levi Gl lei2o2.9 2400) 62 3840n 2300 
3022 TRAV RUOU ES, Paes Se Se eR ai lenin le 2S alam elle O ma le 2ia|fOnOn |e On9e 5 220605 25000K| 25030 
1517 Giilinkcme inten ee S Qe own e 26 Grell Salat |p 6S: 78160594" | 67 2,150 | 2,270 | 2,210 
3641 IMATGUIS Sassen eee Men See PALO ce a toed aN ele Ne COR 2 eae eee reves 2425 0a 
SUMMARY OF GROUPS. 
IBIIMEStEIM earls ere OMG oe 7.75 | 25.95 | 16.85 | 73 72..15..| 72.58 | 2,320 | 2,237 | 2,278 
00), es Soe Seu ree ne ee 3.65 | 29.6 | 16.63 | 73.15 | 71.4 72.28 | 1,960 | 1,987 | 1,973 
Beardedititew a sep eae oon oes: 9.75 | 26.26 | 18 71.6 | 69.74 | 70.67 | 2,146 | 2,065 | 2,106 
IBA Cte peeriae Bete apa cce wars OS 2 8.05 | 26.4 17.23 | 71.62 | 69 70.66 | 2,190 | 2,216 | 2,203 
The bluestem group averaged the greatest percentage of flour, with 
the durums a close second. The bearded fife and fife varieties aver- 
aged practically the same, the yield being considerably less than 
that of the bluestems. The durum variety Kubanka No. 8 gave the 
highest average percentage of flour for any one variety, 73.9 per cent. 
Bakings, which were made in duplicate from these flours, showed the 
volume of the loaf of the bluestem varieties to be the largest, that 
