TESTS OF DEPARTMENT SEEDS. 165 
the present year. In McLeod County, Minnesota, they have done well, 
yielding more per acre than other oats, by measure, and being five to 
twelve pounds heavier per bushel. In some portions of Kansas they 
are said to yield remarkably well, and in Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, 
the excessive yield of one hundred and twenty-four bushels per acre is 
reported. 
The White Swedish, in York County, Maine, after four years’ trial, 
yield thirty-five bushels, of thirty-eight pounds, per acre—better yield and 
weight than of other varieties there. They were reported in 1868 and 
1869 by various farmers in Broome County, New York, as superior. In 
1868, although a dry season, the yield was good, and weight thirty-nine 
pounds. In 1869, after three years’ trial, they are found to suit that 
locality well, and weigh forty pounds per bushel, growing beside other 
oats which weigh only thirty pounds. The secretary of the Broome 
County Agricultural Society reports that “they grow well, do not dete- 
riorate in the least, and though many members have them, they can 
searcely supply the demand for seed.” In Dauphin County, Pennsyl- 
vania, it is stated “no better variety could be wished for, as they are 
remarkably fine, yielding largely, and weighing nearly forty pounds to 
the bushel.” In Lawrence County the yield was fifty-six-fold in meas- 
ure and weight. In Mercer County, Ohio, they are reported “a great 
success, ripening earlier, producing more bushels, and weighing one- 
third more than common varieties.” A Brown County correspondent 
writes that a pound of White Swedish oats, received from the Depart- 
ment, produced seven bushels, weighing forty-five pounds per bushel. 
After two years of cultivation, he found the quality equal to the original, 
weighing forty-five pounds, and yielding largely to the acre. The straw 
is very strong, standing up well against storms and wet, and be thinks 
the variety admirably adapted to that climate. 
WHITE SCHONEN OATS. 
These oats Lave proved productive and profitable over a wide region, 
and the favorable reports noted last year are fully confirmed by later 
returns from the localities then reporting. In Onondaga County, New 
York, the present year, the yield is eighty-five bushels per acre; in 
Sussex County, New Jersey, fitty to sixty bushels, weighing forty pounds 
per bushel. The secretary of the county agricultural society, who makes 
the report, says: ‘We hope to have enough seed to supply Sussex 
County, as these Schénen oats appear destined to supersede ail others.” 
Jn Washington County, Pennsylvania, the yield this year is reported to 
be sixty-four bushels per acre. In Dauphin County they are stated to 
be remarkably fine, to yield largely, and weigh neariy forty pounds per 
bushel. A Mercer County correspondent states that their quality is 
very superior, that they seem peculiarly adapted to Northern Pennsyl- 
vania, and that “in an ordinary season, with good farming, they will 
easily produce seventy-five to one hundred bushels per acre.” 
In Baltimore County, Maryland, the second sowing from a quart of 
seed furnished by the Department produced forty bushels the present 
year. The reporter says: “This variety is superior to our common oats, 
having stiffer straw and larger head, and yielding more bushels to the 
acre and of better quality.” In Princess Anne County, Virginia, they 
are stated by one farmer to be superior to any others raised in the 
county, and by another the yield is reported to be twenty-five-fold, as 
good as the seed sown.: The secretary of the farmers’ club in Lee 
County, West Virginia, reports a yield of about thirty-fold. In Fond 
da Lac County, Wisconsin, they are prized on account of their stiff 
