16 TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE WITH THE SWEDISH SELECT OAT. 



Badger Queen (not grown in 1905), weighed more than the Swedish 



Select, the average weight of the former for four years being 44.5 



pounds per bushel. 



South Dakota. 



Next to Wisconsin, more attention has been given to the Swedish 

 Select oat at the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, at 

 Brookings, than at any other point. Here this oat has been grown 

 throughout the 10-year period from 1899 to 1908, but in 1902 no 

 results were reported because of the damage by wind, and in 1903 all 

 varieties were entirely destroyed by hail. Therefore, actual results 

 are available for only 8 years out of the 10. 



During the period mentioned, 1899-1908, many varieties of oats 

 were grown, a number of them having just been introduced by the 

 writer from Russia and other foreign countries. In the following 

 table is given the yield per acre obtained with some of the best sorts, 

 only two of which, the Swedish Select and the Tobolsk, were grown 

 each of the eight years. 



Table IV. — Yield to the acre of the Sivedish Select oat compared with that of other varieties 

 grown at the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station from 1899 to 1901 and 

 from 1904 to 1908. 



It is seen that the Swedish Select variety yielded better than any 

 other oat except the Sixty-Day, which gave a much better average 

 for the years it was grown, 1901-1908. During these same years the 

 Swedish Select average was 47.5 bushels, while 59.96 bushels was the 



a All the experiments were cooperative between this Bureau and the state experi- 

 ment station and were undertaken with Prof. E. C. Chilcott (now of this Bureau) in 

 charge of the department of agronomy at the state station and were continued after- 

 wards while his former assistant, Mr. J. S. Cole, was in charge of the same department. 

 Early in 1908 Prof. C. Willis was elected to this position, and beginning With the 

 season of 1909 all cooperative experiments with the Office of Grain Investigations have 

 been concentrated at Ilighmore, S. Dak., with Mr. Manley Champlin, special agent of 

 this Bureau, in immediate charge. 

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