14 
BARLEY 
Among malting varieties the Chevalier has given by 
far the best results. It is, however, to the results ob- 
tained with common barley for feeding purposes that 
special attention is desired. The California has given 
the largest yields and we have finally settled on it as 
being the best for raising for sheep feeding. This 
variety has been tested at the Home Station at Fort 
Collins, and at the Sub-Stations at Cheyenne Wells, 
Kocky Ford, and Monte Vista. At Cheyenne Wells it 
was the only cereal that withstood the severe drouth of 
1895. At Rocky Ford it produced 200 bushels from a 
field of five acres, in spite of a hard hailstorm, while even 
at the high altitude of the San Luis Valley, at Monte 
Vista, it produced 88 bushels per acre on a large field. 
Its record at Fort Collins has already been given. 
In 1896, with but one light irrigation, it yielded 33.8 
bushels per acre. In 1894, the yield was 50 bushels per 
acre with a fair season, and not much shortage of water. 
The banner year was 1895. That season the barley was 
put on a piece of bottom land that had been drained and 
cultivated for several years until it showed signs of 
impoverishment. It was covered with a very heavy coat 
of stable manure during the winter of 1893-4. The 
summer of 1894, it was planted to corn and in 1895 to 
barley. The growth of straw was enormous and the 
heading out perfect. Although lodged fiat by a hard 
wind, it ripened its crop. From this field of about three 
acres, there were gathered by the self-binder, 83 bushels 
per acre, of well cleaned, solid grain. A few days later 
when the straw had somewhat straightened, it was cut 
close to the ground with a mower, and produced two 
large loads of stmw that was thrown to the hogs, and 
contained grain enough to give them full feed for about 
three weeks. A heavy crop of volunteer barley showed 
that much had shattered out in addition to the enormous 
quantity gathered. 
The same year this variety was sown on more than ‘ 
twenty farms between Fort Collins and Greeley. The- 
results were uniformly satisfactory, the yields ranging 
from 50 to 80 bushels to the acre. 
