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BULLETIN 270, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



The annual and average yields of the varieties of oats that have been 

 grown in plat tests at Williston for the seven years from 1908 to 1914, 

 inclusive, are presented in Table XII. The varieties are grouped in 

 the table according to their date of maturity, the groups being early, 

 midseason, and late. The midseason group is further separated into 

 white, yellow, and black varieties. Of the 38 varieties included in 

 the table, only 17 were grown in 1914. 



Table XII. — Annual and average yields per acre of 88 varieties of oats grown at the 

 Williston substation, 1908 to 1914, inclusive. 





Yield per acre (bushels). 



Group, Cereal Investigations number, and variety. 



1908 



1609 



1910 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



Aver- 

 age. 



Earl j' yellow group: 















78.9 

 82.2 





165, Sixty-Day 



28.8 

 22.3 



31.3 

 15.3 

 14.3 

 28.0 

 17.9 



76.3 



4.2 



11.2 



50.3 



45.0 



42.6 



165, Sixty-Day (N. Dak. No. 666) 





Midseason white group : 



731, Abundance (N. Dak. No. 966) 



91.1 



12.5 



7.7 



104.7 



93.4 



123.9 



66.4 







336, Bel yak (N. Dak. No. 1425) 



733, Big Four (N. Dak. No. 38) 



Big Four (N. Dak. No. 125) 



84.0 

 99.3 



12.0 

 9.4 



6.1 

 10.0 



63.8 

 91.3 







36.0 



62.8 





50.1 













51.2 







734, Early Gothland (Minn. No. 26) 



16.4 



83.6 



13.0 



6.1 



96.0 





43.0 





62.5 



96.1 



79.3 



491, Hvitling 



29.6 



80.6 



12.5 



9.6 



105.0 

 62.2 

 98.8 

 105.0 

 101.3 



47.5 



736, Hvitling 



58.5 



92.2 



71.0 





30.4 

 28.3 

 32.1 

 14.3 



104.1 

 83.3 

 96.2 



3.6 

 9.9 

 15.6 



8.9 



7.7 

 7.0 



49.2 



737, Ligowo(N. Dak. No. 53) 



76.5 



84.5 



124.3 



51.8 



738, Lincoln (N. Dak. No. 48) 



65.9 



745, Minnesota No. 202 (N. Dak. No. 802) 



739, Myrick (N. Dak. No. 52) 



28.0 

 27.3 

 29.0 

 37.4 

 28.4 



89.2 

 90.4 

 104.1 

 103.3 

 86.0 



12.0 

 8.9 

 10.9 

 14.8 



7.8 



7.6 

 10.0 

 5.1 

 7.3 

 9.9 



103.2 

 107.8 

 106.9 

 95.7 



84.4 



80.6 

 82.5 

 79.4 

 67.5 



68.8 

 66.3 

 75.6 



84.5 



102.3 

 116.4 

 120.7 

 97.3 



53.4 

 61.3 



741, Siberian (N. Dak. No. 864) 



64.5 



714, Silvermine (N. Dak. No. 723) 



63.8 



134', Swedish Select ' 



54.7 



Do 





742, Victory 











88.2 

 84.4 



108.2 



95.2 

 123.3 



86.3 



743, White Waverly (N. Dak. No. 997) 



Midseason yellow group : 



735, Golden Cluster (N. Dak. 10S4) 



11.3 



13.3 

 14.9 

 14.9 

 36.1 



68.0 



104.0 



8.3 



7.8 



5.7 

 4.8 



35.6 



53.8 



493, Golden Rain 



69.1 



















95.0 



9.4 



9.4 



6.1 

 1.3 



101.3 



72.0 



112.8 



61.8 



Midseason black group: 





766, Black Beauty 











82.0 





496, Black Bell 



23.8 

 23.4 



36.1 

 21.4 

 23.0 

 20.6 

 12.6 















497, Great Mogul 

















Late white (side oats) group: 



740, New Zealand (N. Dak. No. 50) 



86.4 

 67.4 

 70.8 

 79.0 



8.9 

 11.5 

 13.0 

 11.0 



3.5 

 1.3 



2.9 

 2.2 



106.2 

 118.8 

 120.6 

 103.2 



82.8 

 83.1 

 80.3 

 76.3 



66.8 

 102.0 

 102.4 



54.0 



713, Tartarian (N. Dak. No. 388) 



52.9 



732, White Russian (N. Dak. No. 51) 



744, White Russian (N. Dak. No. 54) 



White Russian (N. Dak. No. 238) 



58.9 

 56.4 



















In 1908 and 1911 the oats were seeded on ground that had pro- 

 duced small grain the previous year. In all other years they were 

 grown either on breaking or fallow. The ground each spring was 

 worked into good condition before seeding by harrowing alone or by 

 disking and harrowing. 



