CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT CHICO, CALIF. 
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Table 9. — Yields and results of milling and baking tests of wheat varieties grovm at the 
Plant Introduction Station, Chico, Calif, in the five-year period from 1917 to 1921, 
inclusive — Continued. 
Summary of Averages of Five Varieties for the Five- Yeah Period. 
Milling tests. 
Baking tests. 
Season and 
variety. 
Grade. 
Loaf. 
10 11 
12 13 14 
COMMON" WHEATS. 
Soft white: 
Pacific Blue- 4067 
stem. 
Semihard white: 
Baart 1697 
Hard red: 
Marquis 4158 
Hard red winter: 
Kharkof 1442 
CLUB WHEAT. 
White: 
Little Club 4066 
Bu. 
32. t 
29.5 
28.8 
125.0 
Lbs. P.ct. 
61.7 
61.3 
P.ct. P.ct. P.ct. P.ct. C.c. 
71.2 12.7 16.0 54.5 1,794 
10.0 
9.0 
32. 5 58. 6 8. 2 
71.2 
73.5 
73.4 
72.6 
12.8 
14.0 
13.9 
15.8 
14.1 
14.1 
55.8 2,005 
57.4 1,874 
60.0 1,878 
Gms. P.ct. P.ct. 
485 90.8 93.3 
489 90.8 93.2 
489 90.2. 93.0 
498 
16.7 53.5 1,816 480 
90.1 92.0 
87.3 86. 
Summary of Averages of Six Varieties for the Years 1919, 1920, and 1921. 
COMMOX WHEATS. 
Soft white spring: 
Federation 4734 
Pacific Blue- 4067 
stem. 
Sonora 3622 
Semihard white 
spring: 
Baart 1697 
Hard white spring: 
Hard Federa- 2 4980 
tion. 
White Federa- 4981 
tion. 
35. * 
32.3 
26.6 
30.0 
31.2 
59.7 
8.1 
8.5 
74.5 
71.2 
12.1 
12.8 
L4.8 
16.1 
54 2 
54.8 
1,907 
1,788 
488 
487 
88.3 
91.2 
63.3 
7.1 
68.8 
14.0 
18.3 
■>'). 7 
1,737 
493 
90.2 
62.8 
9.0 
71.8 
12.3 
17.9 
55. 3 
2,009 
494 
90. 6 
62.0 
9.4 
72. 1 - 
16.7 
12.9 
60.7 
1,918 
506 
90.8 
61.4 
8.2 
73.3 
15.8 
12.0 
59.6 
1, 9-53 
506 
89.8 
91.7 
92.5 
93.4 
94.8 
94.3 
Average for four years. 2 Average of C. I. Nos. 4733 and 4980 used in 1920, and C. I. No. 4733 in 1921. 
Hybridization Experiments. 
A comprehensive wheat-breeding project, designed to improve 
the leading varieties of the principal wheat-producing sections of the 
western half of the United States, was begun at Chico in 1919 under 
the direction of J. Alien Clark, agronomist in charge of western wheat 
investigations, and has been continued during 1920 and 1921. Crosses 
designed primarily to improve California wheats also were included 
in the crossing program. 
In 1918 hybrid wheat material originated at the Sherman County 
Branch Station, Moro, Oreg., in 1916 and 1917, was grown at Chico, 
and in 1919 material originated at the Cheyenne Experiment Farm, 
at Archer, Wyo., was added. The principal object of the crosses 
made at Moro was to produce a high-yielding awnless hard red winter 
wheat, and of those made at Archer, Wyo., to improve the quality of 
Erivan, the highest yielding spring variety at that station. 
