WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 



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Table XI. — The weight of 1,000 grains and the percentage of hull, water, and 

 protein of 10 varieties of oats grown at the Highmore, S. Dale., substation 

 in 1910. 



S. Dak. 

 No. 



C.I. 



No. 



Variety. 



Weight 

 of 1,000 

 grains. 



Hull in 

 whole 

 grain. 



Water 

 content. 



Protein. 



157 



626 



165 



165 



115 



539 



112 



134 



174 



174 



26... 









286 



286 



336 



336 



Sixty-Day selection 



Sixty-Day 



Kherson 



Swedish Select 



North Finnish Black 



Ligowo (Minn. No. 6) 



Early Gothland (Minn. No. 26) 



Regenerated Swedish Select 



Red Algerian 



Belyak 



Average 



Grams. 

 21.2 

 17.2 

 19.1 

 27.3 

 17.8 

 27.3 

 22.3 

 28.8 

 28.8 

 24.1 



Per cent. 

 22.2 

 24.0 

 24.9 

 25.5 

 25.7 

 27.0 

 27.1 

 27.8 

 28.3 

 28.9 



23.4 



26.1 



Per cent. 

 8.63 

 7.82 

 7.79 

 7.43 

 7.76 

 7.13 

 7.27 

 7.44 

 7.48 

 7.18 



7.59 



Per cent. 

 18.56 

 17.50 

 15.75 

 17.00 

 16.50 

 16.69 

 17.12 

 15.75 

 14.63 

 15.87 



16.54 



LEADING VARIETIES FOR SOUTH DAKOTA. 



The varieties of oats commonly grown in South Dakota have been 

 obtained from the States to the eastward and from Canada. Accord- 

 ing to the results of these trials, they are not as well adapted to local 

 conditions as certain other varieties imported from regions having 

 climatic conditions more nearly like those prevailing in South Dakota. 

 Recently considerable progress has been made in bringing better 

 adapted varieties into common use, but even yet there is far too large 

 a proportion of the crop grown from seed of unadapted varieties. 



Other things being equal, the best variety to grow of a given crop 

 is the one which has made the best average performance record. 

 With definite information about each the farmer can make up his 

 mind which is preferable for his conditions. The varieties of oats 

 which have succeeded best in the tests here reported are the Sixty- 

 Day, Kherson, and Swedish Select. 



Sixty -Day. 1 — The Sixty-Day oat (C. I. No. 165, S. Dak. No. 165) 

 may be distinguished from other varieties by its small, slender, yel- 

 lowish white grain. It ripens early and thus escapes climatic condi- 

 tions that seriously injure later varieties. Mainly for this reason it 

 exceeds all varieties in yield at Brookings, where it produced 47 per 

 cent more grain than the Banner and 11 per cent more than the 

 Swedish Select during the period from 1906 to 1912, as reported in 

 Table VIII. At Highmore, where the late varieties have not been 

 injured by hail, the Sixty-Day has not yielded as well as the later 

 Swedish Select, but it has outyielded the Banner by 9.5 per cent. At 

 Cottonwood the conditions have been a little more favorable to the 

 Sixty-Day than to the later varieties. At Eureka the climatic condi- 



1 For a full discussion of the Sixty-Day and Kherson varieties of oats, see Warburton, 

 C. W., Sixty-Day and Kherson oats, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 

 395, 27 p., 5 fig., 1910. 



