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BULLETIN 400, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XI. — Annual and average yields of the Marquis and 11 other varieties of wheat 
grown on the Cheyenne Experiment Farm, Archer, Wyo., 1913 to 1915, inclusive. 
[Experiments conducted in cooperation with the Wyoming State Board of Farm Commissioners.] 
Group and variety. 
C.I. 
No. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1913 
1914 
1915 
Fife: 
Marquis 
Ghirka Spring 
Glyndon 
Crimean (winter): 
Turkey 
Kharkof 
Crimean 
Kubanka (durum): 
Beloturka 
Kubanka 
Preston: 
Red Russian 
Preston 
Bluestem: 
. Haynes (Minn. No. 169) 
Haynes (Minn. No. 51) . 
3641 
1517 
2873 
1571 
1442 
1559 
1520 
1440 
4141 
2874 
1505 
9.0 
9.2 
5.8 
10.0 
4.4 
2.6 
8.4 
10.0 
9.6 
4.7 
3.2 
11.9 
12.5 
9.0 
5.3 
21.0 
13.2 
12.5 
32.0 
37.1 
38.6 
25. 
19.0 
15.3 
12.8 
10.8 
9.3 
17.3 
17.2 
17.2 
16.2 
15.2 
12.5 
10.6 
8.3 
6.2 
RESULTS AT NEWELL, S. DAK. 
The experiments at Newell have included the Marquis variety dur- 
ing the 3-year period, 1913 to 1915, inclusive. The annual and aver- 
age results are shown in Table XII. The yield of the best variety 
in each group is shown graphically in figure 6. 
Table XII. — Annual and average yields of the Marquis and eight other varieties of wheat 
grown on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, Newell, S. Dak., 1913 to 1915, 
inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.] 
Group and variety. 
Fife: 
Marquis 
Power 
Glyndon 
Crimean (winter): 
Kharkof 
Kubanka (durum): 
Pererodka 
Kubanka 
Arnautka 
Preston: 
Preston 
Bluestem: 
Haynes 
C.I. 
No. 
3276 
3025 
2873 
1442 
1350 
1516 
1493 
3081 
3020 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1913 
16.8 
16.6 
15.8 
38.6 
16.7 
19.1 
17.1 
19.5 
14.1 
1914 
8.0 
5.1 
5.1 
7.2 
5.1 
1915 
Aver- 
25.2 
21.7 
20.2 
43.7 
28.2 
27.7 
27.2 
24.5 
20.4 
Here, as at the stations previously discussed, the hard winter 
wheats excel all spring wheats. The Kharkof outyields the Pere- 
rodka durum, the highest yielding spring variety, by 55 per cent. 
Again, the durum wheats outyield all groups of spring common 
wheats by good margins. The Marquis excels all other varieties of 
