CEREAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE NEPHI SUBSTATION. 29 
lands of the Mountain States. It is interesting to note that the two 
best oat varieties are black, one a winter and the other a spring 
variety. 
BARLEY. 
During 1909 and 1910 two winter and three spring varieties of barley 
were included in the plat tests. Since 1910 the only barleys tested at 
Nephi have been winter varieties. Of these, two varieties have been 
included in the plat tests with winter cereals and four additional 
varieties have been included in the nursery tests. The results obtained 
from the two types (winter and spring) will be considered separately. 
WINTER BARLEY. 
The test with winter barleys began in 1909. During 1909 and 1910 
they gave a higher average yield than did the spring barleys for the 
same period, after which the latter were discarded. The inferiority of 
the spring barleys is due to poorer germination, lower tillermg power, 
and later maturity. The winter barleys have ripened about 10 days 
earlier than the spring barleys and in that way have more fully 
escaped drought. 
The best variety of winter barley tested has been the Utah Winter 
(C. 1. No. 592), known also as White Club in some parts of the country. 
It is of the round or true 6-rowed type, and the head is short, very 
compact, and club shaped. The straw is very stiff and the heads are 
erect. The principal objection to the variety is the ease with which 
the heads are broken off when ripe. The seed of Utah Winter was 
obtained in 1908 from the Boswell farm, where it had yielded about 
50 bushels per acre that year. 
The other variety of winter barley carcmebal * in the plat tests was 
Tennessee (C. I. No. 257). This is one of the square 6-rowed barleys 
often called 4-rowed. The head is longer and somewhat nodding and 
the straw is not so stiff as that of the Utah Winter. Otherwise their 
habits of growth are similar. They grow to a good height and their 
quality is excellent. 
The annual and average acre yields of the two varieties are com- 
pared, together with a summary of the miscellaneous data which have 
been collected during the past four years, in Table XIII. 
