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yield and profit by improving the soil and employing bet- 

 ter methods of seed selection and tillage. It is not impos- 

 sible to secure an average yield of from fifty to seventy-five 

 bushels to the acre throughout the oats region. 



2. Types of Oats 



Two general types or classes of oats are easily dis- 

 tinguished the spreading, or panicled, and the side-bearing 

 or horse-mane. The former has a spreading, bush-like 

 head, branching from all sides of the central stem; the 

 latter carries the grains on short branches, all of which are 

 attached to one side of the stem. 



Varieties for different regions. It is impossible to 

 tell how many different varieties of these two types exist. 

 As in the case of wheat and corn, new varieties are being 

 developed from year to year. Several hundred different 

 varieties are now shown in the seed lists. 



In New England, the northern tier of states and the 

 Rocky Mountain region, white oats of rather late-ma- 

 turing, large-grained varieties are usually most successful. 

 Examples of these varieties belonging to the spreading type 

 are : Clydesdale, Big Four, Swedish Select and Lincoln ; of 

 the horse-mane type, White Russian and Tartarian are 

 well known. 



In the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio River regions, 

 extending as far south as Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Ten- 

 nessee and Texas, and as far east as Ohio, small-grained, 

 early, yellow varieties have proved the best. The Kherson, 

 Silvermine, Big Four and Sixty Day are examples of these 

 varieties. 



Successful fall seeding of oats is possible only in the 

 southern states. For southern fall seeding, Winter Turf 

 and Red Rustproof are the varieties most used. For spring 



