18 TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE WITH THE SWEDISH SELECT OAT. 



Taking an average of all trials in each case, the Swedish Select 

 variety gave the best yield, though the Kherson yielded a trifle 

 better in the 4-year average, 1906-1909. The yield of the Swedish 

 Select at Highmore in 1903 was not quite as good as the average 

 oat yield throughout the State (38.6 bushels), because of severe 

 drought in that district. Highmore is considerably west of the one 

 hundredth meridian, where it is ordinarily very dry for oats. On the 

 other hand, in 1905 (a wet season) and 1908 the Sixty-Day exceeded 

 the Swedish Select in yields. With reference to the crop of 1903, 

 Prof. E. C. Chilcott wrote as follows: 



It is worthy of note that at the driest time the Swedish Select oat appeared to be 

 the most drought-resistant grain on the farm, with the Minnesota No. 6 Manchuria 

 barley a close second. This appearance was borne out by the yields at harvest time. 



Washington. 



The Swedish Select oat was grown on the Washington Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station farm at Pullman during three seasons. 

 In 1903 it made 55 bushels per acre. In 1904 it yielded 86 bushels, 

 in comparison with 82.5 bushels as the highest for any other variety 

 and an average of 61.3 bushels for all other kinds. In 1905 it yielded 

 53 bushels, the same as the average for all others, while it was ex- 

 ceeded by one A r arietv, the Sixty-Day, which yielded 84 bushels. The 

 average yields for the State during these years were 47.9 bushels in 

 1903; 44.9 bushels in 1904; and 50 bushels in 1905. The results 

 reported by farmers from other portions of the State where the 

 climate is drier were much more to the credit of the Swedish Select. 



Colorado. 



In 1900 the Swedish Select oat yielded 18 bushels per acre at the 

 branch experiment station at Cheyenne Wells, Colo., where, at that 

 time, it was hardly expected that any cereal crop would produce 

 anything. The average yield of this variety at the Colorado Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, at Fort Collins, for the years from 1905 

 to 1907 was 8S.4 bushels, the average of all other varieties being 

 86.8 bushels for the same period. 



Iowa. 



As already mentione'd, the Swedish Select oat is adapted particu- 

 larly to the Northern States. Iowa may be considered as a transition 

 area between the northern and central districts (see fig. 2). As 

 might be expected, therefore, this oat does not compare quite so well 

 with other varieties in that State as farther north, but nevertheless 

 ranks rather high in acre yields. In the several years' experiments 

 conducted at Ames by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 si .me results of which were published by Prof. M. L. Bowman in a 



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