. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. ji^*^^7<- m BULLETIN No. 398 f Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief. Washington, D. C. October 12, 1916 CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT THE JUDITH SUBSTATION, MOCCASIN, MONT. BASIN By N. C. Donaldson, Scientific Assistant, Office of Cereal Investigations. (In cooperation with the Montana Agiicultural Experiment Station.) CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Description of the Judixh Basin 2 The Judith Basin substation 9 Experiments with wheat 14 Experiments with oats 26 Experiments with barley .' 31 Experim
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. ji^*^^7<- m BULLETIN No. 398 f Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief. Washington, D. C. October 12, 1916 CEREAL EXPERIMENTS AT THE JUDITH SUBSTATION, MOCCASIN, MONT. BASIN By N. C. Donaldson, Scientific Assistant, Office of Cereal Investigations. (In cooperation with the Montana Agiicultural Experiment Station.) CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Description of the Judixh Basin 2 The Judith Basin substation 9 Experiments with wheat 14 Experiments with oats 26 Experiments with barley .' 31 Experiments with flax 34 Comparison of the leadmg varieties of cereals . 39 Experiments with minor cereals 39 Summary 40 INTRODUCTION. Experiments with, cereals have been conducted cooperatively since 1908 at the Judith Basin substation/ Moccasin, Mont., by the Office of Cereal Investigations of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. The memorandum of understanding between the two parties specifies that— The objects of these cooperative investigations shall be (1) to improve the cereals of the northern Plains region by introducing better varieties than those now grown, especially with regard to drought resistance, yield, quality, -earliness, etc., and (2) to conduct such other experiments as may seem advisable for the accomplishment of the greatest possible good to the dry-land interests of the State. This bulletin presents briefly the results of these investigations, together with such conclusions as they seem to warrant. All experi- ments here reported have been conducted under dry-land conditions. i The Judith Basin substation was established in 1908 by the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry. Prof. F. B. Linfleld has been director of the State sta- tion since the substation was started. Prof. Alfred Atkinson, head of the agronomy department at the State station, has had direct charge of t
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