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yield was forty-fold of grain much heavier than the common oats, and 
also five days earlier. In Bowdoinham, in the same county, they stood 
five feet high, and are pronounced “ the best oats ever seen in the town.” 
In Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, the yield was over forty-five- 
fold, and the grain superior. In Carroll County the yield this year was 
good, and the weight forty pounds per bushel. In Merrimack County 
the yield was twenty-eight-fold, and the grain, thoroughly cleaned, 
weighed forty-six pounds per bushel. They took the diploma at the 
New Hampshire State Fair in 1870. 
In Windham County, Vermont, these oats were experimented with by 
many persons, and in every case the yield was good, and the grain large 
and heavy. Some of the heads were twenty inches long, and the straw 
was of excellent quality. In Randolph, Orange County, one farmer re- 
ports the yield about forty-fold, and the weight of grain forty-one pounds — 
per bushel; in another instance, the weight of the grain was forty-three 
pounds. 
In Queens County, New York, the Excelsior matured eight days 
earlier than other oats, and yielded forty-three bushels per acre, the seed 
Grilled in. In Winchester County the yield was thirty-five bushels per 
acre, thirty-five pourids per bushel, and the straw was strong, high, and 
double that of other oats in quantity. The oats were also two weeks 
earlier than other kinds. In Jefferson County the yield, reported by 
the secretary of the county agricultural society, was forty-three-fold, 
and quality superior. In Oneida County, upon land not the best for 
grain, the weight of the oats grown was forty pounds per bushel, the 
average weight of common oats grown there being less than thirty-two 
pounds. In Cortland County the yield this year was at the rate of thirty 
bushels per acre, and weight over thirty-five pounds. In Washington 
County they are reported to be “the best, brightest, heaviest, and have 
the evenest kernel of any oats ever introduced” into that section of 
the country; yield, sixty-five bushels per acre. 
Several experiments were reported in 1869 from Dauphin County, 
Pennsylvania, by Hot. R. J. Haldeman, of an increase of nearly two 
hundred-fold. This yield is the largest yet reported, and remarkable 
even in limited experiments under the most favorable circumstances. 
The yield in Tioga County is reported at ninety-fold, the grain weighing 
forty and one-half pounds per bushel; in Cumberland County one hun- 
dred and thirty-six-fold, weight forty-five pounds per bushel. In Ches- 
ter County, it is stated, they are “early, handsome, and heavy.” 
In Talbot County, Maryland, sown broadcast on rich land, without 
manure, the yield was twenty-four-fold, and weight forty-five pounds 
per bushel. In Kent County, upon land thinly seeded, the yield was 
seventy-five-fold, weight forty-five pounds, 
In Erie County, Ohio, from seed drilled in, the yield was over fifty- 
seven-fold. In Cuyahoga about twenty-fold, and weight forty-two 
pounds. In Trumbull County the yield was sixteen-fold, weight forty- 
two pounds. The results of four experiments in Hamilton County are 
reported by Mr. J. S. Sheppard, and are respectively thirty-eight, forty- 
two, thirty-six and forty-four-fold. The secretary of the Stark County 
Agricultural Society reports the yield seventy-fold, and the quality as 
good as that of the seed sown. i 
Hon. John Pool, of North Carolina, in a letter of August 10, 1870, 
says that the product of four quarts of Excelsior oats was seven and one- 
half bushels, weighing thirty-seven pounds to the bushel, and that the 
oats have attracted a great deal of attention in the neighborhood, being 
the finest ever seen there. 
