Experiments With Cereals On The Belle Fourche Experiment Farm PDF Download

Excerpt from Experiments With Cereals on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, Newell, S. Dak The results obtained from the experiments on the dry land up to and including 1913 have been published In detail. 2 The work was discohtinued at the close Of the season Of 1919 and all of the important results are published here in order to bring the data up to date and to make the unpublished results from all experiments available. Owing to the widely varying climatic conditions, the yields Of the grains show large fluctuations in different seasons. Most Of the. Experiments here reported, however, have been con ducted for a. Sufficiently long period to show quite definitely which are the best varieties and the best cultural methods for growing the various cereals in this region. The results are applicable to a large part of western South Dakota and adj acent portions of northeastern Wyoming, southeastern Montana, and southwestern North Dakota, especially oii-the heavier types Of soil. The average yields Of-wheat, oats, and barley obtained on dry land arenot large, but might be profitable if Seasonal conditions were more uniform. Low yields have been Obtained in several years and failures Of apart of all of the crops in others. High yields were obtained in 1915 and fairly high yields of some crops in 1908, 1909, and 1918. Grain growing alone is not likely to be successful in western South Dakota, but if carried on in conjunction with stock raising will be profitable some years. Wheat, oats, and barley are 'more successful than other small grains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.