RESULTS OF TRIALS IN THIS COUNTRY. 



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addition to the low-lying rich soil and excellent climate the oat plats 

 had the advantage of irrigation. Other trials by farmers in other 

 parts of the State were made under conditions of "dry farming" 

 without irrigation. Results are available only for the period from 

 1900 to 1905, inclusive, and through some oversight the Swedish 

 Select variety was not sown at the experiment station in 1902. This 

 happened, too, to be a year of enormous yields, one variety, the Wide 

 Awake, yielding 172.5 bushels per acre. For the remaining years 



Fig. l.— Field of Swedish Select oats in shock, at Edgeley, N. Dak., in 1904. 



in this period from 1900 to 1905 the yield of the Swedish Select, com- 

 pared with five other varieties, was as follows: 



Table III. — Yield to the cure of the Swedish Select oat compared with that of five other 

 varieties grown at the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station during 1900 and 1901 

 and from 1903 to 1905. 



Variety. 



Progress 



White Danish. 

 Wide Awake. . 



Scotch 



Swedish Select 

 Bland's White 



Period of 

 growth. 



Dai/s. 

 118.0 

 118.0 

 117.0 

 116.0 

 111.5 

 122.0 



The Swedish Select oat stands fifth in the list in yield. These varie- 

 ties only were grown in 1905. For the years 1900, 1901, 1903, and 

 1904 the following other varieties made an average yield greater than 

 that of the Swedish Select, while several fell below it: 



Bushels. 



Mogheda 109. 8 



American White 109. 2 



American Beauty 107. 9 



Archangel 106. 9 



It will be noted in Table III that the Swedish Select oat stands 

 much above the others in weight per bushel. It is also four days 

 earlier than any other variety. Only one variety out of fifteen, the 



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