EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS, 5 



The Kherson and Sixty-Day are early in maturing, ripening from 

 90 to 100 days after sowing, or about 10 to 15 daj^s earher than most 

 other varieties. It is the earhness of these varieties which has made 



Fig. 2.— Panicles and spikelets of two early yellow varieties of oats; 1, Klierson; 2, Sixty-Day. 



them particularly valuable in the corn belt and in the Great Plains 

 area. Because of their earhness they are enabled to escape to some 

 extent injury by drought, storms, and rust. 



