REPORT OF THE CEREALIST 149 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



MOST PRODUCTIVE VARIETIES OF OATS. 



Among the most productive kinds of oats, the following white varieties deserve 

 special mention: Thousand Dollar, Twentieth Century, Improved American, Banner, 

 Carton's Abundance and Danish Island. One or more of these kinds can be obtained 

 from any good seedsman. Gold Eain is a very productive yellow oat. Among black 

 oats, the English varieties, Pioneer and Excelsior, have given the best returns on the 

 Central Farm during the past few years, but they have not proved so. productive as the 

 best white kinds. 



EARLIEST VARIETIES OF OATS. 



The varieties called Sixty Day and Early Eipe are extremely early in ripening, 

 but cannot be recommended for general purposes, though they may be useful in certain 

 special cases. 



Somewhat less early, but probably more satisfactory as a rule, are Daubeney and 

 Tartar King. These oats are obtainable in commerce, but farmers will usually find 

 some of the later varieties more productive. 



SIX-ROW BARLEY. 



The plots were sown on April 22 to 27, the seed being used at the rate of about 

 two bushels to the acre. The land on which it was necessary to place the plots' varied 

 so much in character, within short distances, that the yields given in the following- 

 table have not much significance. 



The variety known as O.A.C. No. 21 is a selected strain produced by Prof. C. A. 

 Zavitz, of Guelph, Ontario, from Mandscheuri barley. 



Early Indian is a selected strain from a very early barley grown at high elevations 

 i.". northern India. 



The yield per acre is expressed in pounds, and also in ' bushels ' of forty-eight 

 pounds. 



The varieties under numbers are new cross-bred sorts produced by the Dominion 

 Cerealist. Many of them are hulless, as may be seen from their high weight per 

 bushel. 



* Named varieties and selected strains produced at the Central Experimental Earm 

 are marked with an asterisk. 



