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Oats in the United States. About twice as much oats are 

 raised in Europe as in North America. In the United States the 

 oats region consists of six adjacent States, namely, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Indiana, in the order named. 



FIG. 54. Compact side oats, and open type of semiside oats. Varieties, Clydsdale and 



Black Finnish. 



The six States produce 55 per cent of the oat crop, but Illinois and 

 Iowa far exceed the others. 



While oats as a crop appear to reach their highest development 

 in quality and yield somewhat north of the Corn Belt, yet they are 

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