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best time for seeding. Rustproof oats ordinarily is 

 both a winter and spring variety. Strictly winter strains 

 have been developed, however, that are very hardy some 

 distance north. The Winter Turf or Gray Winter is 

 always strictly a winter variety. The Culberson, though 

 quite different from the Turf, is also a rather hardy winter 



FIG. 33. Field of Appier oats, near Columbia, South Carolina. 



oat. The total oat production of the district is small, 

 but is increasing considerably recently (Figs. 33 and 34). 

 The frequent injury from late spring frosts makes it 

 requisite that winter cereals in the South shall possess a 

 particular kind of hardiness, that must show itself after 

 growth starts in the spring. 



Principal varieties now grown : 



Appier 

 Bancroft 

 Burt 

 Cook 



Needs of the district : 

 Resistance to late spring frosts 

 Rust prevention 

 White-kerneled varieties 



Culberson 



Fulghum 



Virginia Gray Winter 



Hundred Bushel 



Rustproof 

 Winter Turf 



Earliness 

 Winter hardiness 



