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straw and good yield; and in Rock County, where the Black Swedish 
were ruined by rust, the Schénen were not affected. Alsoin Bay County, 
Michigan, where the former did not succeed, the latter did remarkably 
well, the straw being very stiff, the heads large, and the oats weighing 
forty-six pounds to the bushel. ; 
In Crawford County, Mlinois, the Schénen oats rusted on account of 
lateness, a fact sometimes mentioned in other reports. In Whitesides 
County their quality, in 1869, was excellent, and they yielded at the rate 
of seventy-five bushels per acre; in Macoupin, seventy bushels. In 
Miami County, Kansas, sown broadcast, the yield was sixty-fold, but 
the weight not much greater than that of common oats. In Nemaha 
County the yield was sixty-four-fold and the grain excellent. In Riley 
County, also, the yield was large. In Stone County, Missouri, it was 
forty-fold, rather better than the Black Swedish. In Brown County, 
Minnesota, they are reported a valuable acquisition, well adapted to the 
soil and climate, and much superior to the oats usually raised there, 
being heavy and yielding abundantly. 
In Clayton County, Iowa, the yield of common oats was ten-fold, as 
reported by one farmer, while the yield of this variety, similarly treated, 
was thirty-two-fold, quality good, and kernels large. In Whatcom 
County, Washington Territory, from seed drilled in, the yield in 1869 
was sixty-four-fold and weight thirty-six pounds per bushel, as reported 
by the secretary of the agricultural society. ; 
The Somerset oats in Orleans County, Vermont, ripened ten days 
earlier than other kinds the present year, and were very heavy. In 
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the yield on a creek flat was eighty- 
fold, and weight forty pounds per bushel. In the District of Columbia 
the yield was forty-four-fold and weight thirty-eight pounds per bushel, 
other oats weighing twenty-six pounds. In Huntingdon County, Indi- 
ana, the yield is reported at eighty bushels per acre, and weight forty- 
five pounds. These were the premium oats at the annual fair in this 
county in 1869. In Clarke County the yield and weight of grain are 
reported to be heavy, and the straw tall. 
EXCELSIOR OATS. 
No other variety of oats introduced into the country has proved equal 
to the Excelsior in weight, yield of grain, and adaptability to a great 
diversity of soil and climate. The yield of straw is also heavy, and 
when not too thickly seeded, and grown upon soil not too rich, they 
stand up well. The reports of experiments show that the thinnest seed- 
ing has produced the greatest yield and heaviest grain. ‘Their tillering 
-is remarkable, as many as twenty stalks having originated from one 
seed. The reports upon the Excelsior oats given in this article, as in 
the case of other grain noted in the Annual Report of 1869, are additional 
to the reports published in that volume. 
In Penobscot County, Maine, the Excelsior were ten days earlier than 
other varieties, the yield about forty-fold, and the grain weighed forty- 
four pounds per bushel ; they did not rust. In Kennebec County the 
yield was.forty-fold. Our correspondent says they grew six feet high, 
the yield was about four times that of the common varieties, and he. 
considers them superior to any other variety he has raised. In Cumber- 
land County the yield was twenty-four-fold, and the oats matured two 
weeks earlier than other oats, from Canada, grown beside them, and 
were much heavier. At Brunswick, in the sdme county, the yield was 
thirty-three-fold, grain full and plump as barley, and tit to cut five days 
earlier than other oats. At Richmond Corner, Sagadahoc County, the 
