. Bulletin. BULLETIN OF THE No. 39. Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief. January 20, 1914. EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY IN SOUTH By Manley Champlin, Collaborator and Scientific Assistant, Office of Cereal Investigations, and Assist- ant Agronomist, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. IMPORTANCE OF THE CEREALS. The common grain crops, wheat, oats, and barley, have been one of the chief sources of wealth in South Dakota for a number of years. In 1903, the first year of the period discussed in this bulletin, 3,424,- 000 acres of whea
. Bulletin. BULLETIN OF THE No. 39. Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief. January 20, 1914. EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY IN SOUTH By Manley Champlin, Collaborator and Scientific Assistant, Office of Cereal Investigations, and Assist- ant Agronomist, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. IMPORTANCE OF THE CEREALS. The common grain crops, wheat, oats, and barley, have been one of the chief sources of wealth in South Dakota for a number of years. In 1903, the first year of the period discussed in this bulletin, 3,424,- 000 acres of wheat were grown in the State, with an average yield of bushels to the acre, or a total yield of 47,253,000 bushels. Since that year the acreage has remained about the same, and the yield has approximated 13 bushels to the acre in normal seasons. There have been two poor crop years, 1904, when there was a serious epidemic of rust, and 1911, when drought reduced the crop. The average annual yield of wheat in the State during the 10-year period from 1903 to 1912, inclusive, was bushels to the acre. The area devoted to the oat crop has increased from 706,000 acres in 1903 to 1,540,000 in 1912, or has more than doubled in the 10 years. The total yield likewise has almost doubled, being 52,052,000' bushels in 1912, as compared with 27,267,000 bushels in 1903. The average yield to the acre for the State during the 10-year period has been bushels. Barley has also more than doubled in importance. The total yield of this crop has increased from 10,656,000 bushels in 1903 to 23,062,000 bushels in 1912, the average acre yield for the period being bushels. It is apparent from these figures that wheat still ranks first in im- portance, with oats second and barley third, but that there is an increasing tendency toward greater diversification and the increasing of the acreage of other crops than wheat. 1 Cooperative experiments with cereals have been conducted by the South Da
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