BULLETIN 823, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The New York (Cornell) and the Pennsylvania agricultural 

 experiment stations also report varietial experiments which include 

 the Kherson and Sixty-Day oats. 



Results in Maine. 



The annual and average yields of the Kherson and of seven other 

 varieties of oats grown at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Orono (41, 42, 43) during the 6-year period from 1910 to 1915, 

 inclusive, are shown in Table II. 



Table II. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson and of seven other commercial 

 varieties of oats grown at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station {at Orono) 

 during the 6-year period from 1910 to 1915, inclusive. 



[Data compiled from Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins 229 and 250 (41 and 43).] 



Group and variety. 



Yield per acre (bushels). 



Early yellow: Kherson 



Midseason yellow: Imported Scotchi. 

 Midseason white: 



Banner 



Prosperity 



Irish Victor 



Swedish Select.^ ; 



Late white (side): Senator.... 



69.4 

 60.0 



70.8 

 65.5 

 70.5 

 72.1 

 53.5 



47.8 

 62.4 



45.8 

 52.8 

 55.6 

 40.9 

 38.3 



52.7 

 62.2 



62.6 

 67.4 

 61.6 



56.5 

 53.5 



60.8 

 67.7 



62.7 

 63.0 

 67.0 

 60.9 

 51.7 



82.7 

 87.1 



94.5 

 92.1 



82.4 

 79.9 

 83.6 



66.8 

 64.8 



81.8 

 74.1 

 76.2 

 68.3 

 57.9 



63.4 

 67.4 



69.7 

 69.2 

 68.9 

 63.1 

 56.4 



1 The identity of this variety is not definitely known. 



The data in Table II show rather conclusively that the midseason 

 varieties outyieid the Kherson at Orono. Banner and Prosperity, 

 the leading midseason varieties, have exceeded the Kherson in 6-year 

 average yield by 6.3 and 5.8 bushels, respectively. On the other 

 hand, the Kherson has outyielded the Senator, a late side oat, by 7 

 bushels. 



Several pure lines of the Kherson have been tested at the Maine 

 station, but proved to be decidedly inferior to pure lines of Banner, 

 Irish Victor, and Imported Scotch and therefore were discarded. 



Results in New Hampshire. 



The annual and average yields of the Kherson and four other 

 varieties of oats grown at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Durham (44, p. 141-146) for two or more years of 

 the 4-year period from 1906 to 1909, inclusive, are given in Table III. 

 Although several varieties were grown in 1904, no data on yields 

 are available, as all varieties were destroyed by rust. 



The data in Table III are not sufficient to determine the value of 

 the Kherson oat for New Hampshire conditions. However, they 

 indicate that the early varieties are of some promise, because they 

 usually escape the rust and for that reason may outyieid the mid- 

 season varieties in a series of years. In the two years for which 



