58 BULLETIN 1039, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
varieties with the exception of Trebi. The Nepal (White Hull-less) 
variety has not given good yields, its only advantage appearing to be 
the lack of awns. A head of Nepal barley is shown in figure 19. 
Fig. 20. — Irrigating a field of Chevalier barley on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm. 
Table XLII. — Yields of varieties of barley groivn on irrigated land on the Belle 
Fourche Experiment Farm, 1912 to 1919, inclusive. 
C.I. 
No. 
Yields per acre (bushels). 
Group and variety. 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
Average. 
1914 
to 
1919 
1917 
to 
1919 
Six-rowed, hulled: 
Coast 
690 
905 
638 
354 
182 
936 
1162 
530 
531 
620 
595 
23.0 
20.9 
15.2 
14.7 
37.9 
23.9 
65.6 
66.7 
25.4 
17.7 
'27.' 6" 
43.0 
Manchuria (Wis. No. 13) 
Manchuria (Minn. No. 6) 
"l6.'9" 
"n.T 
25.8 
21.8 
36.1 
Manchuria (Minn. No. 105) 
23.5 
17.8 
Trebi 
38.0 
75.9 
28.8 
47.6 
Two-rowed, hulled: 
26.8 
23.0 
15.0 
26.6 
19.2 
37.2 
39.2 
23.4 
20.4 
23.2 
23.9 
25.1 
17.5 
14.9 
13.0 
19.8 
*32.'9" 
38.5 
40.7 
23.7 
22.3 
74.3 
32.0 
38.5 
48.3 
Six-rowed, naked: 
Himalaya ( Guy Mayle) 
62.7 
51.6 
17.5 
18.4 
28.6 
24.5 
34.6 
Six-rowed hooded/naked: 
Nepal (White Hull-less) 
9.1 
30.8 
Table XLIII shows the average dates of heading and maturity, 
height, weight per bushel, and yields of grain and straw of four 
varieties of barley grown from 1914 to 1917, inclusive, and 1919. The 
average yields of these four varieties are also shown in figure 21. 
