SMALL GRAINS ON ARLINGTON EXPERIMENT FARM 
13 
The bearded wheats included in Table 7, with the exception of 
Genesee Giant, are all midhigh or tall and as a group produce a 
low ratio of grain to straw. This is especially noticeable in Missouri 
Bluestem and Hybrid (C. I. No. 3608), two wheats of the Mediter- 
ranean type, and in Amber Longberry, a white wheat. Genesee 
Giant, another white wheat, produces a short, stiff straw and has the 
highest ratio of grain to straw of any of the awned varieties. 
Lodging is -possibly a factor in aiding the awnless wheats to out- 
yield the awned forms at the Arlington Experiment Farm. Under 
similar soil and climatic conditions it is believed that the awned varie- 
ties, with the exception of Genesee Giant, normally will be reduced 
in yield more frequently and severely by lodging than the awnless 
varieties mentioned in Table 7. 
Table 7. — -Average agronomic data for 17 varieties of winter wheat grown at the 
Arlington Experiment Farm in each of the 12 years, 1912-1923, inclusive 
Variety 
C.I. 
No. 
Purplestraw i 1915 
Do ; 1957 
Fultz 1923 
Poole ! 1979 
Potomac 1733 
Fulcaster 1945 
Dietz 1981 
Mammoth Red : 2008 
Bearded Purplestraw 1911 
Stoner j 2980 
Missouri Bluestem : 1912 
Rocky Mountain I 1930 
Hybrid.. 3608 
Do 3614 
Amber Longberry I 1973 
Genesee Giant 1744 
Brown Fife » 1933 
Date of— 
Heading Maturity 
May 20 
..do 
May 21 
Mav 22 
May 23 
May 22 
..do 
May 23 
Mav 22 
..do 
May 24 
May 23 
...do 
May 24 
May 26 
Mav 24 
May 25 
June 17 
June 18 
...do.... 
June 22 
...do j 
June 20 ! 
...do | 
...do 
...do--.-! 
June 19 : 
June 22 j 
June 21 I 
...do ] 
June 23 I 
...do I 
...do 
June 21 I 
Height 
Acre yields 
Ratio of 
grain to \ 
Grain 
Straw 
straw 
Inches 
Bushels 
Pounds 
46 
33.0 
4,258 
1 
2.15 
49 
31.3 
4,590 
1 
2.44 
48 
30.4 
4,102 
1 
2.25 
51 
31.4 
4,545 
1 
2.41 
50 
32.2 
4,413 
1 
2.28 
52 
29.4 
4,524 
1 
2.56 
52 
27.7 
4,214 
1 
2.54 
52 
29.2 
4,336 
1 
2.47 
51 
27.8 
4,439 
1 
2.66 
51 
27.7 
4,340 
1 
2.61 
52 
29.0 
4,823 
1 
2.77 
51 
29.0 
4,618 
1 
2.65 
51 
26.3 
4,324 
1 
2.74 
54 
29.9 
4,515 
1 
2.52 
53 
27.4 
4,744 
1 
2.89 
47 
29.8 
4,087 
1 
2.29 
48 
27.9 
4,348 
1 
2.60 
Bushel 
weight 
Pom 
60.4 
60.1 
59.7 
59.3 
58.7 
59.2 
60.0 
59.6 
59.5 
59.7 
58.8 
59.7 
59.4 
58.7 
58.8 
57.4 
58.4 
1 The name "Brown Fife" was given in 1922 to a strain of wheat formerly grown as Jones Winter Fife. 
In habit of growth and morphological characters it is somewhat similar to Grandprize. 
RATE-OF-SEEDING EXPERIMENTS 
Rate-of-seeding experiments with Fultz, Dietz, Martin, and 
Stoner wheats were conducted from 1913 to 1916, inclusive, with seed- 
ing rates per acre ranging from 2 to 8 pecks, inclusive. In 1917 
the Martin was dropped from the test, and the 10-peck rate was addeo 
for the other varieties. In 1918 the 9-peck rate also was included. 
The data for each rate are based on the average yield from two 
fortieth-acre plats. An experiment in which rate and date of seeding 
and method of preparing the seed bed were all involved was begun 
with Purplestraw wheat in 1919. The rate-of-seeding data shown 
for this variety represent the annual average yields from 10 fortieth- 
acre plats for each seeding rate in the 5-year period from 1919 to 1923, 
inclusive. The annual and average yields are presented in Table 8. 
The general average of all varieties in the 11-year period from 1913 
to 1923, inclusive, shows the 6-peck rate to be the most profitable, 
although the net gain over the 4-peck rate is only 0.2 bushel. The 
effectiveness of a seeding rate, however, may vary with the variety. 
The most profitable rate for Fultz was 7 pecks, for Martin 5 pecks, 
for Stoner and Purplestraw 6 pecks, and for Dietz 8 pecks, 
8880— 25f 3 
