. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CEEEAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE CHEYENNE EXPERIMENT FARM. 15 The leading varieties of winter wlieat, with the exception of the Ghirka Winter, belong to the Crimean group. The Ghirka Winter is a beardless variety with white, glabrous chaff and hard, red kernels. The Crimean group is characterized by bearded heads with white, glabrous chaff and hard, red kernels. Turkey is the leadmg variety on the farms m this section of Wyoming. A plat of Turkey winter wheat on the Cheyenne Experunent Farm is shown in figure 7. RATE-OF-SEEDI
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CEEEAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE CHEYENNE EXPERIMENT FARM. 15 The leading varieties of winter wlieat, with the exception of the Ghirka Winter, belong to the Crimean group. The Ghirka Winter is a beardless variety with white, glabrous chaff and hard, red kernels. The Crimean group is characterized by bearded heads with white, glabrous chaff and hard, red kernels. Turkey is the leadmg variety on the farms m this section of Wyoming. A plat of Turkey winter wheat on the Cheyenne Experunent Farm is shown in figure 7. RATE-OF-SEEDING EXPERIMENT. A rate-of-seeding experiment has been conducted at the Cheyenne Experunent Farm smce 1913 with two varieties of winter wheat. The rates of seeding have ranged from 2 to 7 pecks per acre. The. Fig. 7.âA plat of winter wheat on disked com land on the Cheyenne Experiment Farm, 1915. (Pho- tograph lent by the Office of Dry-Land Agriculture Investigations.) annual and average yields in the rate-of-seeding test of the Turkey and Ghirka Winter wheats are shown in Table VIII. Table VIII.âAnnual and average yields of the Turkey and GhirM Winter wheats in. a rate-of-seeding test on the Cheyenne Experiment Farm in ,1914, and 1915. Yield per acre. Variety and rale of .seeding. 1913 1914 1915 :i-year average. Grain. Straw. Grain. straw. Grain. Straw. Grain. S(;raw. Turkey: BusheU. Powndn. BuhUcU. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 () I' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 J'oundx. 4,070 4,<M) 4,.'') to 5,030 5,0!»0 Pounds. 715 585 830 750 (WO 1.^.. 2 1,902 4 pecks 1,708 1,953 J, 947 Ohirka winter: â :«), 5 4,700 5,080 5,130 5,040 4,920 3 \>(!ckn fKX) 450 695 650 750 1,893 4 [>w; 6 1,800 1,878 1,890 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
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