the bushel. The California barley was sown May 12th, irri¬ 
gated June 25th, and harvested August 12th. 
Variety. 
Area of Plat Yield per Plat 
Yield per Acre 
in Acres. 
in Bushels 
in Bushels. 
Champion. 
8.5 
51 
Nepaul. 
. 0.17 
8.5 
27' 
Black. 
4.0 
24 : 
Manshury. 
. 0.33 
11.5 
34 
New Zealand. 
. 0.014 
0.75 
51 
California. 
25.0 
50 
I tali e. 
0.15 
23 
Celeste Petite.. 
RYE. 
23 
A sixth of an acre of Prolific Spring Rye yielded four 
bushels, or twenty-four bushels per acre. It was sown, irri¬ 
gated and harvested at the same times named in connection 
with the wheat. 
BUCKWHEAT. 
The farmers of Colorado seem to raise but very little 
buckwheat, and apparently the reason is not that buckwheat 
will not grow, but that it shells and wastes so in harvesting. 
The small plats raised on the farm this season were cut 
by hand with great care, carried in a canvas to avoid loss 
and threshed by hand, and yet it is probable that the amount 
saved represented not much more than two-thirds of the seed 
grown by the plants. 
Two distinct kinds of buckwheat were grown. The 
Asiatic and the Angled are like the ordinary Silver-hull or 
Japanese buckwheat. While the other two varieties have a 
smaller berry shaped more like a kernel of wheat or rye from 
which it gets its name of rye-buckwheat. This kind is new 
to Colorado but has been long raised in New England under 
the name of India wheat or Nigger wheat. Its special 
characteristic is that it will grow on soil too poor to raise 
anything else. All varieties made a rank, vigorous growth, 
but owing to the losses in harvesting it is doubtful whether 
any of them would prove profitable on land rich enough to 
grow other grains. 
Some second sowing, made in the middle of summer, 
proved a complete failure. The varieties reported on below 
