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OATS 



The average yield in both Germany and England is comparatively 

 high, while the two greatest oat-producing countries, United States 

 and Russia, have rather low yields per acre. 



In the United States (Fig. 52) and Russia, with great level 

 plains and rather low rainfall, the farming is at present extensive 



Fia. 53. Loose type of side panicle variety, Danish Island. 



rather than intensive, as in Germany and England. With the best 

 methods of farming the present average yields in the United States 

 could be doubled, and at present the movement is in that direction. 

 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, Iowa, Illinois, 

 Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and South Dakota in the order 

 named. The six States produce 53 per cent of the oats crop, but 



