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mally rather short. The heads are small,. .spreading (fig. l&J] and 

 silally well filled with slender, yellow kernels. While the weight 

 3r bushel is sometimes rather low, the percentage of hull is lower 

 Lan in most varieties of oats. The Sixty-Day selection which has 

 ven the highest 3-year average yield at Moro does not differ in 

 3pearance from the unselected variety. The principal objections to 

 lese early oats are the small size of the kernel and the shortness of 

 le straw. Because of the short straw it is sometimes difficult to 

 irvest them with a binder. When the oat crop is to be cut for 



Fig. 14. — A twentieth-acre plat of Sixty-Day oats at the Moro substation in 1914. 



ay, some other variety with larger, taller straw should be grown. 



plat of Sixty-Day oats at the Moro substation is shown in figure 14. 



Siberian. — The Siberian is an old European variety. The stock 

 cown at the Moro substation was obtained a number of years ago 

 om the Ontario Agricultural College, where this variety has been 



leading one for many years. The Siberian variety ripens at Moro 

 bout 8 or 10 days later than the Kherson and Sixty-Day. It is a 

 ill, rather slender strawed variety, with open heads. The kernels 

 re white, long, and slender, but are considerably larger than those 

 f the Kherson and Sixty-Day varieties. The average weight per 

 ushel at Moro was 34 pounds, which is second only to that of the 



