EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS. 



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yields of Kherson are reported it averaged slightly better than any 

 other variety. 



Table III. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson and four other varieties of oals 

 groivn at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (at Durham) during tvm or 

 more years in the 4-year period from 1906 to 1909, inclusive. 



[Data compiled from New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 145 (44, p. 141-14t'0-l 









Yield per 



acre (bush 



els). 



Group and variety. 



1906 



1907 



1908 



1909 



Average. 





1906 to 1909 



1908 and 

 1909 



Early yellow : Kherson 







34.6 



25.5 

 24.3 

 31.0 



31.5 



36.6 



31.9 

 40.0 

 35.8 



33.1 





35.6 



Midseason yellow: 



Hamilton 



31.6 

 38.1 

 24.1 



35.3 



6S.1 

 52.5 

 57.5 



68.7 



39.3 

 38.7 

 37.1 



42.2 



28 7 





32 2 





33.4 



Late white (side): Long's White Tar- 

 tar . 



32.3 







' The true Welcome is a midseason white variety. 



Under date of November 26, 1917, Prof. F. W. Taylor, agronomist, 

 writes: 



We have not grown any Kherson oats since 1909, and for that reason have no data 

 other than that published in Bulletin 145. Everything considered, I do not think 

 the Kherson oat is as well adapted to New Hampshire as some other strains like the 

 Lincoln and Long's White Tartar. What we need here is an oat that does not run too 

 much to straw and one which has at least some rust-resisting qualities. 



Results in New York, i 



At the Cornell University station (Ithaca) (23) the oat varietal 

 experiments have been conducted in cooperation with the United 

 States Department of Agriculture since 1907. While several pure- 

 line selections of the Sixty-Day oat have been included in these 

 experiments, only one (No. 5938-1) has been of sufficient promise to 

 warrant its retention throughout the entire 11-year period from 1907 

 to 1917, inclusive. The annual and average yields of two pure-line 

 selections of the Sixty-Day, six selections from other varieties, and 

 two unselected commercial varieties grow^n at Ithaca in seven or 

 more years of the 11-year period from 1907 to 1917, inclusive, are 

 shown in Table IV. 



The data in Table IV indicate clearly that the midseason white 

 varieties will outyield the early yellow varieties in New York. The 

 difference between the highest yielding Sixty-Day selection (5938-1) 

 and the Welcome selection (123-5), the leading variety at Ithaca, is 

 4.2 bushels. Ho\vever, the Sixty-Day selection approaches the mid- 

 season varieties more closely in yield than might generally be expected 

 and in unfavorable years may surpass them. 



1 Data since 1913 are from unpublished annual reports of Dr. H. H. Love, collaborator, and Mr. W. T. 

 Craig, agent, to the Office of Cereal Investigations. 



