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BULLETIN 1039, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
to 1915, inclusive, because of the minor importance of the crop, the 
proso varieties were grown only in rows. These rows usually were 
60 feet long and replicated two or three times. During this period 
the highest average yields were obtained from the Turghai and Eed 
Russian varieties. 
In 1916 a few of the leading varieties of proso from the nursery 
row experiments were sown in plats. These were continued for 
three years more and several additional varieties also were grown in 
1917 and 1919. The Dakota Kursk, a millet of the foxtail group, 
was included in both the nursery and plat experiments for compari- 
son with the prosos. The yields of the varieties are shown in 
Table XXV. 
Table XXV.- 
-Yields of proso varieties grown on dry land on the Belle Fourche 
Experiment Farm, 1916 to 1919, inclusive. 
Group and variety. 
C.I. 
No. 
Yields per acre (bushels). 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
Average. 
Spreading, white seeded: 
WhiteUral 
4 
78 
179 
61 
31 
101 
27 
26 
17 
24.1 
23.7 
11.8 
18.8 
17.5 
18.2 
15.4 
16.4 
15.4 
13.6 
6.3 
44.3 
5.5 
5.8 
9.7 
13.2 
13.1 
11.3 
14.0 
8.9 
9.2 
12.8 
24.4 
"White" 
Hansen 
27.2 
25.0 
21.4 
33.6 
55.4 
22.3 
Spreading, red seeded: 
Red Russian 
27.8 
Turghai 
Loose, yellow seeded: 
Loose, black seeded: 
Black Voronezh. 
a 23. 5 
38.8 
23.2 
Compact, red seeded: 
Yellow Sarepta 
Foxtail millet: 
° Grown in a spacing test adjoining other varieties. 
As shown in Table XXXVI, the Eed Russian variety produced the 
highest average yield during the 4-year period. The White Ural, 
the next highest yielding variety, produced 3.4 bushels per acre less 
than Red Russian. Both the Black Voronezh and the Hansen yielded 
less than the White Ural. The Turghai was the highest yielding 
variety in the nursery experiments, but it did not yield as well as 
Red Russian in the plat experiments. It was not grown in plats 
in 1918, however. 
Average agronomic data for the proso varieties grown in 1917 and 
1919 are shown in Table XXVI. 
