LESSON FOR THE FARM 



L. H. Bailey, Director 

 Course for the Farm, Royal Gilkey, Supervisor 



VOL. II. No. 44 



ITHACA, NEW YORK 

 JULY 15, 1913 



plant-breeding series 



No. 2 



METHODS OF BREEDING OATS* 



H. H. Love 

 (In cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 



Department of Agriculture) 

 Oats constitute one of the most important field crops of New York State. 



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Fig. 103. — View of oat-breeding plats of the Department of Plant-breeding at Cornell 



University 



According to the statistics for different crops in 1 9 1 1 , taken from the Year- 



* Paper No. 35, Department of Plant-breeding. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 



Published serni-monthly throughout the year by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University. Entered as second-class matter October 13, 191 1, at the post office at Ithaca, New York, 

 under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



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