30 TEN YEARS ' EXPERIENCE WITH THE SWEDISH SELECT OAT. 



In 1902 about 5 bushels of this seed were given to each of three other persons. None 

 of their crop was saved as seed and no record is available of their yields. Mr. Jones 

 sowed about 35 bushels on 12 acres. This yielded 900 measured bushels, weighing 40 

 pounds per bushel, which by weight would amount to 1,125 bushels. The yield was, 

 therefore, 93 bushels per acre by weight. All of this crop was saved for seed. 



In the fifth year, 1903, about 750 bushels of Mr. David Jones's crop were used by 

 him or sold in his immediate neighborhood for seed. The only exact available record 

 for the season is that Mr. F. E. Jones sowed 20 bushels on 10 acres and obtained a crop 

 of 780 bushels by measure, weighing 40 pounds per measured bushel, making, there- 

 fore, a yield by weight of 975 bushels, or at the rate of 97.5 bushels per acre. It would 

 be a safe estimate to say that 20,000 bushels were produced from this seed in 1903. 



Mr. David Jones has taken much interest in work of this kind, 

 which has not only been of much public benefit, but has alwaj^s 

 resulted very profitably to himself because of his careful selection of 

 seed and the manner in which the crop has been handled. He has 

 done similar thorough work with other varieties of oats, one of which, 

 the Sixty-Day, was also introduced by this Department. 



RECENT REPORTS. 



Many of the preceding reports were written several years ago. The 

 following reports are more recent and give a good idea of .present con- 

 ditions in Wisconsin with respect to this oat. 



Mr. H. F. Kramer, of Bloomer, Chippewa County, Wis. : 



It gives me pleasure to testify to the merits of Swedish Select oats, which I have 

 grown for the past 6 years, for they have surpassed any of the other varieties tried in 

 this locality in appearance, weight, large, plump kernels, early maturity, and a strong 

 straw. While attending the short course in agriculture during the winter of 1902, I 

 saw these oats for the first time. They appeared to be so much better than any others 

 that I determined to secure some for seed, and was one of the first to apply when 

 Professor Moore offered them to the experiment association for trial. The plat of 

 ground on which they were sown was a good fertile soil, and the growing oats had a 

 thrifty and healthy appearance all summer. When ready to harvest the oats aver- 

 aged about 5 feet in height. The 80 pounds of seed which I had secured yielded 56 

 measured bushels, or 70 by weight. The season of 1903 was an unfavorable one to the 

 growth of oats, but they led all others that I noticed. Even this last summer of 1907, 

 the poorest in years, the Swedish oats are ahead at least 5 bushels per acre, and in 

 quality also. One more feature, they are practically free from smut and very easily 

 kept so. I have tried both broadcast seeder and the drill with 2\ bushels to 'Sh bushels 

 per acre, but find that 3 bushels sown with a drill produces the best results. I have 

 had a ready sale for all that I have grown, in fact, never had enough to fill all of the 

 orders I receive for seed. After shipping seed to various parts of the country, both 

 by carload and in small lots, I have yet to hear the first complaint. To sum it all up, 

 they do well and take wherever tried. 



Mr. Fred G. Stroup, of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wis.: 



The land on which the oats were sown was black prairie soil which sloped to the 

 west with good natural drainage. The land had had corn on it the year before. From 

 the 4 acres we thrashed 180 bushels, machine measure, or 45 bushels per acre. The 

 other pats that we raised that year in the same field, following the same crop, yielded 

 52 bushels, machine measure, but were sown 2 bushels per acre, while the Swedish 



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