BARLEY 
13 
TESTS OF 1895. 
Field plots, 90 pounds of seed per acre sown with 
machine drill. 
Name of Variety. 
Date of 
planting:. 
Date of 
harvesting. 
Yield of grain 
per acre in bu. 
New Zealand 
April 3 
“ 3 
July 31 
“ 28 
22.5 
Black 
25.6 
California (Volunteer) 
August 1 
1 
49 
California.. 
“ 4 
83 
Chevalier 
“ 4 
- 8 
79 
TESTS OF 1896. 
Field plots, 90 pounds of seed per acre, sown with 
machine drill. 
Name of Variety. 
Date of 
planting. 
Date of 
harvesting. 
Yield of grain 
per acre in bu. 
California 
April 7 
July 21 
33.8 
From the above records it will be seen that many 
varieties of barley have been grown on the College Farm 
and Sub-Stations for several years. For the past three 
years, a large number of varieties of foreign barleys have 
been grown on small plats, but as none of them have 
seemed to be an improvement on the kinds usually grown, 
their records are not here given. 
Without going into any extended discussion of the 
merits of the different varieties, it may be said in general, , 
that the white varieties of hulless barley have usually 
produced better than the black or purple, though some 
individual yields of small plats of the purple have been 
very high. It should be remembered in comparing the 
yields of the common and the hulless barleys, that the 
latter weighs fully sixty pounds to the bushel, and hence 
represents a quarter more value per bushel than the 
hulled varieties. 
