UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1172 
Washington, D. C. 
August, 1923 
CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT CHICO, CALIFORNIA 
By 
VICTOR H. FLORELL 
Assistant Agronomist, Office of Cereal Investigations 
Bureau of Plant Industry 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Introduction 1 
The Sacramento Valley 1 
The Plant Introduction Station 6 
Experimental Methods 9 
Preparation of the Land 9 
Plat Experiments 10 
Nursery Experiments 10 
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Experimental Data 11 
Wheat Experiments 12 
Barley Experiments 24 
Oat Experiments 29 
Miscellaneous Experiments and Notes . . 31 
Summary 32 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1923 
