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following order, starting with the highest yielding variety : Siberian, 

 Waterloo, Probsteier, Oderbrucker, Bavarian, Joanette, Egyptian, 

 and Black Tartarian. It must be remembered that these oats were 

 grown on plots and not in large fields of each variety. The land on 

 which they were grown, however, received no commercial fertilizers, 

 but had an application of farmyard manure at the rate of twenty tons, 

 which is about equal to twelve good-sized loads per acre, once every 

 four years. Besides this, the land received one green crop plowed 

 under within the last ten years. In a four years' rotation the Oats 

 usually followed a cultivated crop which had been manured. 



In the average results for five yeaus in growing thirty-three var- 

 ieties of oats, the varieties which have given high results, other than 

 those already mentioned in the previous paragraph, are the Vick's 

 American Banner, Canadian Pride, Peerless, Irish Victor, Liberty, 

 Mennonite, Michigan Wonder and New Zealand. Among those grown 

 for less than five years, the following are the largest yielders : Ertrag- 

 reichster. Yellow Russian, The Great American, and the New Golden 

 Cluster. 



Seventy-eight varieties of oats were under experiment in 1904, and 

 the results from the plots show that the following varieties produced 

 the greatest yield of grain per acre : American Banner, Peerless, New 

 Zealand, Irish Victor, Michigan Wonder, German Rust Proof, Black 

 Gotham, Liberty, and The Great American. In weight of grain, only 

 four varieties went as high as forty pounds per measured bushel, viz., 

 Early Dawson, White Superior Scotch, Zhelannie, and Tobolsk. 



In some localities, the oat crop lodges very badly before it is cut. 

 In these sections, it is very important to obtain a variety which is very 

 stiff in the straw and not so likely to lodge as some of 

 the older varieties. According to the results of our ex- 

 periments, the Tartar King and the Storm King are among 

 the very stiffest straw varieties. These are apt to stand up 

 where some of the other varieties will become badly lodged. We 

 notice, however, that in extreme cases, where the Tartar King variety 

 is grown and where it does become lodged, it usually lies very flat on 

 the ground. The Storm King was grown in 1904 for the first time, 

 and our experience, therefore, with this variety is still very limited. 

 A variety obtained under the name of Canadian King is very similar to 

 the Storm King, and may possibly be another name for the same 

 variety. 



According to the results of quite extensive experimental work at 

 the College, we find that by growing oats and barley together a larger 

 yield of grain can be obtained than from either one grown separately. 

 In order to grow two grains together, however, it is important to 

 select such varieties as will mature at about the same time. As nearly 

 all varieties of oats are considerably later In maturing than most of 

 the varieties of barley, it is important to select some very early var- 

 iety of oats to use in combination with a six-rowed barley. The follow- 



