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and average yields obtained from the Marquis and four other varie- 
ties of wheat are given in Table XXVI. The average yield of each 
variety is shown graphically in figure 10. 
The Marquis wheat has been compared with durum wheats and with 
varieties of common wheats of the Fife, Bluestem, and White Austra- 
lian groups. The last named group consists of soft white wheats, ex- 
tensively grown west of the Kocky Mountains and represented at Newell 
by the Defiance variety. The Kubanka durum outyields the Marquis 
by over 20 per cent. The Marquis, however, outyields the Power by 1 1 
per cent, and the Haynes and Defiance by 25 and 30 per cent, respec- 
tively. The Marquis has been compared with winter wheat only in 
1915, when the Kharkof, a Crimean or hard red winter wheat, yielded 
nearly four times as much as the Marquis. 
Table XXVI. — Annual and average yields of the Marquis and four other varieties of 
wheat grown under irrigation on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm,, Newell, S. Dak., 
1913 to 1915, inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture.] 
C. I. No. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
Group and variety. 
1913 
i 
1914 1 1915 
Aver- 
age. 
Fife: 
Marquis 
3276 
3025 
1440 
2874 
3703 
1583 
18.3 
17.0 
18.6 
14.2 
11.7 
18.3 
17.0 
22.8 
15.4 
18.0 
18.0 
14.7 
22.0 
11.5 
8.0 
66.3 
18.2 
16.2 
Kubanka (durum): 
21.7 
Bluestem: 
13.7 
White Australian: 
12.6 
Crimean (winter): 
RESULTS AT HUNTLEY, MONT. 
The experiments at Huntley are conducted cooperatively by the 
Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture and the Montana Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. The data here presented have been fur- 
nished by the Agriculturist in Charge of the Office of Western Irriga- 
tion Agriculture. The Marquis variety has been grown in varietal 
experiments during only two years, 1913 and 1914. The annual and 
average yields are given in Table XXVII. The average yield of the 
best variety in each group is shown graphically in figure 10. 
At the Huntley station the Marquis variety has been compared 
only with spring common wheats. It has outyielded Pringle Cham- 
plain by 4 per cent; Stanley, a beardless variety with brown glumes, 
by 25 per cent; and Dicklow, by 32 per cent. 
