Experiment Station Recommends Two
New Cereal Crops for Alaska Growth
In cooperation with the Alaska
Agricultural Experiment station’s
recent recommendation of Edda
barley and Golden Rain oats for
growing in Alaska, Parker Lester
stated that any farmers of the
southwest district interested in
planting either of the new cer
eals may file a request with his
office. Mr. Lester is-the District
Agricultural Agent.
The Alaska Experiment Station
in recommending the new cereals
for growing throughout the ter
ritory announced that approxi
mately 15,000 pounds of seed of
each variety is to be made avail
able to Alaska growers for the
1951 crop season.
Edda Barley
Edda is a hulled, six-rowed,
early maturing, mid-tall, spring
variety of barley. It has a lax.
slightly nodding spike. Its superi
or characteristics are resistance
to lodging, high test weight, and
high yielding ability. Edda has
been tested in replicated nursery
trials at the Matanuska and Fair-1
banks Experiment Stations for
the period 1946-1950. For the five-,
year period at the Matanuska Sta
tion Edda averaged 54.1 bushels'
per acre. Under the same condi- j
lions Olli and Trapmar averaged1
only 43.7 and 33.8 bushels per I
acre, respectively.
At the Fairbanks Station, for
the same period ,the three vari
eties yielded as follows: Edda,
40.6; Olli, 36.4; and Trapmar, 31.21
bushels per acre. In 25 coopera
tive nursery trials, seeded on in
dividual farms throughout the ag
ricultural areas of the Territory,
Edda performed similarly. In
crease plantings under field con
ditions at four locations also veri
fied the outstanding qualities of
this new introduction. On the
basis of these and other agro
nomic data Edda is being recom
mended for the first time in 1951
for growing in all barley-grow
ing areas of Alaska.
Edda is an introduction from
Sweden, having resulted from an
Asplund Vega cross made in 1925
at the Svalof Branch Station at
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Golden Rain Oats
Golden Rain is a midseason to
early maturing variety, a few
days earlier than Climax, stiff
strawed, and high yielding. The
penicles are equilateral and the
kernels are thin-hulled, plump,
and yellow. Its superior charac
ters are stiffer straw, increased
earliness, high test weight, and
high yielding ability. It is being
generally recommended for grow
ing in Alaska in 1951.
Although recommended pri
marily for seed production pur
poses, it is also satisfactory for
hay or silage whenever such a
variety is desired. In nursery
trials at the Matanuska and Fair
banks Experiment Stations dur
ing the period 1945 to 1950 and
throughout the Territory in 1950,
Golden Rain appeared to be well
adapted to Alaskan soils and cli
matic conditions. Grain yields for
the station at Palmer for the 1946
1950 period show the following
results: Golden Rain, 71.9; Cli
max, 73.3; and Gopher, 65.2 bush
els per acre. For the fire-year
period (1945-1949) at the Fair
banks Station Golden Rain yield
ed 77.7 bushels per acre. No com
petitive data are available for
Climax and Gopher for the same
years.
Golden Rain is of Swedish or
igin and, according to their re
ports, is a sister selection of Vic
tory. These varieties were select
ed out of Milton which, in turn,
is an old mixed variety of Prob
stier type. Although Golden Rain
had been tested in Alaska prior to
the present introduction and
found very productive, it was not
released for commercial consump
tion. The current seed increase
traces to an introduction from the
Yakutsk Experiment Station lo
cated in Eastern Siberia in 1944
by the then Vice President Henry
A. Wallace. The seed he intro
duced into Alaska was left with
Dr. B. M. Bensin, Agronomist,
Fairbanks Experiment Station,
for testing when Mr. Wallace re
turned from Siberia.
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Discussion Jan. 7
The Great Books Discussion
Group will not meet during the
latter half of December due to
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Alaska. Present plans call for
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