UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 498 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
February 19, 1917 
EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING CEREALS 
AT THE EASTERN OREGON DRY- 
FARMING SUBSTATION 
MORO, OREG. 
By 
DAVID E. STEPHENS, Station Superintendent 
Office of Cereal Investigations 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Introduction 1 
Description of the Station 2 
Soil 3 
Climatic Conditions 5 
Experimental Methods 11 
Dimensions of Plats 11 
Treatment of Plats ....... 12 
Cereal Experiments 14 
Spring Wheat 14 
Page 
Cereal Experiments —Continued. 
Spring Oats 26 
Spring Barley .31 
Comparative Value of Wheat, Oats, 
and Barley 35 
Spring Emmer 35 
Grain Sorghums 36 
Summary 36 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1917 
