. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 32 BULLETIN 1039, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTTJEE. plants are too close together to be separated. There is also some apparent crowding out of weak plants. The number of plants counted per peck of seed sown ranged from 80,500 in the 10-peck seeding to 98,500 in the 4-peck seeding. The ratio of grain to straw was almost 1 to 1 except in the 8-peck seeding. Table XXI.—Average agronomic data for oats groicn in the rate-of-seeding experiments on dry land on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farrni in 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 191
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 32 BULLETIN 1039, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTTJEE. plants are too close together to be separated. There is also some apparent crowding out of weak plants. The number of plants counted per peck of seed sown ranged from 80,500 in the 10-peck seeding to 98,500 in the 4-peck seeding. The ratio of grain to straw was almost 1 to 1 except in the 8-peck seeding. Table XXI.—Average agronomic data for oats groicn in the rate-of-seeding experiments on dry land on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farrni in 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, and 1916. Rate of seeding per acre. 4 6 8 10 pecks. Emer- gence to maturity Days. 83 82 81 Height. Weight per Inches. 26 26 25 23 Pounds. Stand per acre.^ Plants. 394,000 525,000 672,000 805,000 Yields per acre. Grain. Straw Pounds. 1,273 1,298 1,213 1,190 Pounds. 1,275 1,315 1,319 1,213 a Average for 4 years, 1909, 1913, 1915, and 1918. Average for 3 years, 1909, 1915, and 1916. EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. The yields of the best varieties of barley in pounds per acre on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm have been nearly as large as those of oats and spring wheat. Most varieties of barley mature more quickly than oats or wheat, and the crop can thus be sown at a later M/9A/CHUR//9 e/fT/9A7/ ^/X-/fO*V££>, /l^/KfZ'•• Af£:f/9L N/9A/A/C/^£/V iVH/T£ SMYfim. r/£:LD P£R /9C/^E /O /S 20 2S OO \2(XS3a \ , \\ WBM2i-9sa Fig. 11.—Diagram showing the average yields, in per acre, of the leading varieties of barley on dry land at the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm for the 8-year period from 1912 to 1919, inclusive. date. Barley grown on the dry lands of western South Dakota is used almost exclusively as a feed crop and its market value is of minor importance there. Winter barley has been sown several years, but has never survived the winter at Newell. LLi f. Please note that these images are extract
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