| Show SELECTION OF BEST VARIETIES OF SEED importance Is indicated in number of experiments 9 of yields found at different western stations with wheat oats and barley results of experiments prepared by the united states de department art of agriculture the importance of selecting a crop variety that Is suited to the section in which it is gro grow n Is s indi indicated dated in a number of experiments conducted at various field stations last year in operative cooperative co experiments at the dick inson substation north dakota a number of varieties of co common millon wheat grown under similar conditions produced yields which varied from bushels an acre to bushels the variations varla tiomi in yields of varieties of durum wheat were from bushels an acre to bushels A wide variation was obtained in similar experiments with oats oate the range being from bushels oil an acre to bushels barley showed a variation which ranged from bushels an acre to 97 07 bushels at the cheyenne Choy enno field station in wyoming experiments with winter wheat gave yields which ranged from an average of bushels an acre to 1 84 bushels with spring wheat bushels to bushels n ath oats bushels to bushels with barley bushels to bushels at the nepha substation in utah operative cooperative co results with varieties of winter wheat showed a variation ranging from froin bushels an acre to 22 bushels and with spring wheat from bushels to 03 bushels similar experiments conducted in california with showed a variation in yield ranging from 50 bushels an acre to bushels bus liels in a series of years the average yields of varieties usually do not vary so widely as these yields of a single year but it Is generally found that certain varieties give better abage yields than others and are therefore more profitable table |
