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BULLETIN" 823, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table XVIII. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson, the Sixty-Day, and seven 

 other varieties of oats grown at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station {at Lin- 

 coln) during six or more years in the 14-year -period from 1903 to 1916, inclusive. 



[Data compiled from Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 160 (21).] 



Group and variety. 



Yield per acre (bushels). 



1907 



1909 



1916 



Average . 



1903 

 to 

 1916 



1905 

 to 

 1916 



1911 

 to 

 ^916 



Pearly yellow: 



Kherson 



Sixty-Day - 



Early red: 



Red Rustproof (Texas 

 Red) 



Burt 



Burt (June) 



Midseason white: 



Swedish Select 



American Banner 



Lincoln 



University No. 6 (Im- 

 proved Ligowo) 



68.0 

 52.4 



55.1 

 .51.8 



40.6 



82.7 

 84.2 



81.7 

 8.5.5 



36.4 

 40.7 



441 

 42.3 



49.0 

 59.6 



42.5 

 48.5 



67.2 

 60.3 



40.1 



85.4 



55.0 



.53.9 



65.0 

 64, 



77.6 

 74.1 



53.1 

 60.7 



42.5 

 38.2 

 .32.0 



3.5.6 

 38.6 

 33.9 



31.5 

 45.6 



24.5 

 31.8 

 22.8 



69.2 

 76.3 

 85.2 



77.1 



42.8 

 40.2 

 42.3 



34.6 



32.5 

 31.0 



28.5 



29.4 



44.0 

 .34.3 

 4.3.6 



67.1 

 61.7 

 71.6 



68.0 



55.8 

 -51.9 

 .51.8 



45.2 



41.2 

 35.7 

 39.1 



32.6 



26.4 

 28. 

 29.5 



25.9 



60.3 

 61.4 

 53.3 



45.9 

 •33.9 

 40.3 



22.0 



71.3 

 76.7 

 63.9 



60.7 

 47.1 

 53. 5 



49.1 



.56.0 

 65.9 

 54.9 



.35.2 

 34.5 

 30.7 



87.1 

 79.2 

 85.5 



83.6 

 67.5 

 70.3 



58.2 



59.7 

 61.3 



50.4 

 4,5.2 

 48.9 



37.8 



Results in Eastern Kansas. 



The annual and average yields of seven early yellow and five other 

 varieties of oats grown at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Manhattan during five or more years in the 10-year period 

 from 1908 to 1917, inclusive, are shown in Table XIX. 



Table XIX. — Annual and average yields of seven early yellow and five other varieties of 

 oats grown at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station {at Manhattan) during five 

 or more years in the 10-year period from 1908 to 1917, inclusive} 



[Data obtained in cooperation with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station.] 



Group and variety. 



Early yellow: 



Kherson 



Do 



Sixty-Day (Sel. 5009) 



Sixty-Day (Kans.) 



Sixty-Day (Ind. )2 



SLxty-Day (N. Dak.)2 



Seventy-five Day 



Early red: 



Burt (C.I. No. 293) 



Red Rustproof (Texas Red)... 

 Do 



Red Algerian 



Midseason white: 



Green Russian 



Kan- 

 sas 

 No. 



5034 

 6021 

 6014 

 5009 

 5043 

 5044 

 5104 



5020 

 5031 

 5015 

 5105 



5122 



Yield per acre (bushels). 



28.1 

 23." 6 



41.9 

 45.8 

 37.5 



60.5 



69.7 



8.5.8 



.5 



58.9 



64.9 

 43.0 

 63.7 

 56.2 



55.4 



i.5 



54.5 



62 



59.3 



57.5 



1912 



18. 4.5. 5 

 18.241.3 

 17.9149.7 



14.4 

 18.2 

 15.7 

 23.9 



18.0 

 17.2 

 14.1 

 17.7 



16.4 



52.6 

 54.3 

 45.4 

 42.2 



45.3 

 63.2 

 56.8 

 59.6 



57.1 



1913 



13.2 

 16.9 

 5.8 

 11.7 

 10.4 

 11.2 

 13.7 



12.9 

 10.4 

 16.1 

 18.3 



6.3 



1914 



27.1 

 34.5 

 24.2 

 29.1 

 26.2 

 31.9 

 30.7 



32.7 

 18.1 

 40.3 

 34.7 



32.6 



1915 



40.2 

 45.0 

 42.2 

 37.8 

 27.5 

 23.1 

 4 



46.3 

 33.9 

 38.4 

 38.7 



37.3 



50, 

 51.7 



51.9 

 47.9 

 48.3 



56.1 

 42.0 

 53.5 

 60.6 



44.4 



1917 



47.8 

 50.6 



51.7 



61.5 

 49.5 

 57.6 

 56.6 



52.7 



Average. 



1908 

 to 

 1917 



39.7 



1908 and 

 1909, 1911 

 to 1917. 



1911 

 to 

 1917 



36. 8 34. 7 

 36. 9 



38.] 



42.2 

 35.9 

 42.0 



35.6 



.39.0 

 33.5 

 39.5 

 40.9 



35.3 



1 Data from unpublished annual reports of Prof. W. M. Jardine, formerly collaborator, to the Office of 

 Cereal Investigations. 



2 Data from trOocaJ experiments. 



