THE INTERNATIONAL SAWFLY YIELD NURSERY The 14 entries in the 1980 International Sawfly Yield Performance Nursery are listed below: Entry Cross C.I. No. or Year No. or Variety Sel. No. Entered Source ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Fortuna 13596 1963 USDA-ND 2 Chris 13751 1971 USDA-MN 3 Tioga 17286 1969 USDA-ND 4 Waldron 13958 1975 USDA-ND 5 Lew 17429 1972 USDA-MT 6 Thatcher 10003 1976 USDA-MN 7 wRN//S6579/ND487 SU28's'-1 1976 ND 8 WRN//S6579/Jt ND580 1980 ND 9 Tzpp/Son64//Fta MT7810** 1979 USDA-MT 10 B52-91//KF/Cnt/3/Fta MT7620 1979 USDA-MT 11 ND6850/Fta MT783 1979 USDA-MT 12 Tzpp/Son64//Fta MT7819** 1980 USDA-MT 13 ND6850/Fta MT781 1980 USDA-MT 14 ND681/MT6830 MT7926 1980 USDA-MT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Semidwarf Trial Description and Summary The International Sawfly Nursery was planted at 5 locations in North Dakota and Montana but harvested at 4. Data are given in Tables 5-1 to 5-4. Entries at Bozeman had the highest average yield of 87.9 bu/A, while entries at Williston had the lowest with 17.0 bu/A. Average yields and bushel weights in 1980, 1979-80, and 1978-80 for entries in this nursery are given in Table 6. MT7819 ranked first in yield with 44.9 bu/A while Chris had the lowest average with 34.2 bu/A. SU28's'-1 had the highest three year average yield of 40.0 bu/A. Miscellaneous agronomic and disease data are summarized in Table 7-1 and 7-2. No stem cutting data was obtained on entries at Lethbridge, Canada in 1980.