This trial was planted at University Field Station, Farmington, Utah, in
1960, on a plot of land about one half acre in size. The soil was not
too uniform...the northern third of the field was clay and the rest was
gravelly. Rows were planted 22 inches apart, 62 rows total, each row
running the length of the field. Before harvest, 4 rows were removed
from each side, and 12 feet was removed from each end. Each row was
harvested in five-foot lengths, threshed, and the seed weighed to the
nearest gram.
The northern third of the field had yields twice as high as the
remaining part of the field because the soil had better moisture
retention. The remaining part of the field had yields that were more
uniform.
Wiedemann determined the optimum plot size to be about 8 basic plots.
The shape of the plot was not very important. But, two-row plots were
recommended for simplicity of harvest, so 3.33 feet by 20 feet.
Based on operational costs, K1=74 percent and K2=26 percent.
Field width: 33 plots/ranges * 5ft = 165 feet
Field length: 54 rows * 22 in/row = 99 feet
For this R package, the tables in Wiedemann were converted by OCR to
digital format, and all values were checked by hand.
The original source document has columns labeled 33, 32, ... 1. Here
the columns are labeled 1:33 so that plotting tools work normally. See
Wiedemann figure 8.
Wiedemann notes the statistical analysis of the data required 100 hours
of labor. Today the analysis takes only a second.