BARLEY 
7 
TESTS OF VARIETIES. 
TESTS OF 1887. 
Small plots, hand-planted, selected seed, in drills 22 
inches apart, four pounds of seed per acre. 
Name of Variety. 
Per cent of 
seed 
germinat- 
ing. 
Yield of 
grain per 
acre in 
bushels. 
Number of 
days 
ripening. 
Smooth Hulless 
84 
30 
114 
Winnepeg No. 1 
83 
35 
114 
Winnepeg No. 'i. 
80 
35 
123 
New Zealand 
82 
35 
121 
Chevalier 
84 
55 
112 
Zealand 
84 
471/2 
112 
Winter 6-rowed 
73 
621/2 
126 
Purple 
72 
371/2 
U6 
Melon 
99 
40 
117 
Del Norte 
76 
471/2 
116 
Triumph 
67 
471/2 
116 
India 
88 
471/2 
116 
Kilima 
93 
50 
117 
Scotch Amat 
93 
35 
116 
Black 
96 
60 
116 
Palestine 
71 
371/2 
117 
Amat 
93 
35 
127 
Guy Malye 
82 
47J4 
116 
Manchurian 
66 
371/2 
Frick’s 
79 
50 
Spring 4-rowed 
75 
471/2 
Erfurt 
93 
471/2 
Nepaul 
79 
471/2 
Winter 4-rowed 
76 
471/2 
Phoenix 
77 
471/2 
Sibley’s Improved 
78 
55 
Manshury 
72 
60 
Adams’s Heavy 
94 
55 
Sibley’s Pearl 
92 
271/2 
Sibley’s Puiple 
95 
50 
Battledore 
76 
35 
