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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 1039 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
May 5, 1922 
EXPERIMENTS WITH CEREALS 
ON THE BELLE FOURCHE 
EXPERIMENT FARM 
NEWELL, S. DAK. 
By 
JOHN H. MARTIN, Agronomist 
Office of Cereal Investigations 
CONTENTS 
Page 
The Cereal Experiments. ......... 1 
Description of the Field Station 2 
Location 2 
History of the Region 3 
Soil . . . . 4 
Native Vegetation 4 
Climatic Conditions , . . 5 
Experimental Methods ....'" 11 
Preparation of the Land ......... 11 
Plat Experiments 11 
Nursery Experiments 12 
Experiments on Dry Land 13 
Experiments with Wheat 13 
Experiments with Oats 27 
Experiments with Barley 32 
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Experiments on Dry Land— Continued. 
Experiments with Minor Cereals . . 36 
Comparison of Grain Crops 41 
Experiments with Flax ........ 42 
Experiments on Irrigated Land 45 
Experiments with Wheat ' *6 
Experiments with Oats 52 
Experiments with 1 Barley 56 
Experiments with Minor Cereals . . 59 
Experiments with Grain Mixtures . . 62 
Comparison of Grain Crops 64 
Experiments with Flax ..'...... 65 
Tillage Experiments 69 
Summary 70 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1922 
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