159 



home grown oats of the Red Rust Proof variety. Nearly all 

 of the varieties from France were evidently spring oats and 

 these proved too tender for fall sowing in this latitude. 

 Winter killing of from one-third to two-thirds of the plants 

 on these plots was the cause of the low yields. One foreign 

 variety, Gray Winter, proved hardy, and for two years it has 

 kept a rather high rank among the varieties tested. All 

 varieties, except the Naked or Hull-less, were sown at the rate 

 of 44 pounds of seed per acre. 



The eleventh- acre plots were arranged in two series, side 

 by side. Plot 10 being opposite and near Plot 1, Plot 18 

 opposite Plot 9, and so on. The field, which embraced a hill- 

 top on which there was a deep sandy, poor soil, produced a 

 crop of cotton in 1896. The plots seemed to be of the same 

 fectility, but the yields of the check plots of Red Kust Proof 

 oats suggest that there was a gradual decline in the fertility 

 from Plot 1 to 9 and from Plot 10 to 18. 



Varieties of oats sown November lb, 1^96. 



o 



o 



7 



8 



!t 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 1.5 

 IR 

 17 

 18 



VARIETY 



Red Rustproof 



Red Rust Proof 



Red Rust Proof 



Hull-less Oats 



Giaut White Abun- 

 dance 



White Hunp;arian... 



Yellow Giant 



Hatchett's Black.... 

 Red Rust Proof . . . . 



Gray Winter 



Beardless 



Red Rustproof 



Red Rust Proof .... 



Early Siberian 



Virginia Gray 



SEED FROM 



YIELD PER ACRE 



Straw i Grain 



-1.3 



a o 

 « ■;? 



Ala. Expt. Station 



Ala. Expt. Station 



Ala. Expt. Station. . . ^ 

 France 



T.W.Wood & Sons, Va. 



France 



France 



T.W.Wood & Sons, Va, 



Ala Expt. Station 



France 



T.W.Wood ct Sons, Va 



Ala. Expt. Station 



T.W.Wood & Sons, Va 



France 



T.W.Wood cfr Sous, Va 



46 

 41 

 41 



18 



26 

 14 

 14 

 32 

 47 

 30 

 38 

 46 

 43 

 24 

 40 



In this test Virginia Gray and Red Rust Proof stand 

 first in yield of grain. 



* The plots not represented in the above table formed part of another 

 experiment. 



