EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS. 



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Varietal experiments including the Sixty-Day oat were conducted 

 by the Arkansas station at Fayettevillc during the 5-year period from 

 1909 to 1913, inclusive. 



During the six years from 1904 to 1909, inclusive, the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Kansas 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, conducted varietal experiments 

 with oats at McPherson, Kans. Several early yeUow varieties were 

 included in these experiments. No results of varietal experiments 

 with oats have been published by the Oklahoma station. Three 

 years' results of varietal experiments with oats have been reported 

 by the Denton (Tex.) substation. 



Results in Tennessee. 



The annual and average yields of the Kherson and three other varie- 

 ties of oats grown at the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station 

 (28) during two or more years in the 5-year period from 1908 to 1912, 

 inclusive, are presented in Table XX. 



Table XX. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson and three other varieties of oats 

 grown at the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station {at Knoxville) during two or 

 more years in the 5-year period from 1908 to 1912, inclusive. 



[Data compiled from Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 112 (28).] 





Yield per acre (bushels). 



Group and variety. 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1912 



Average. 





1911 and 

 1912 



1908 to 

 1912 



Early yellow: 



29.5 



27.3 

 20.7 



26.4 



20.2 

 23.3 



43.2 



45.6 

 32.7 



12.6 



14.9 

 12.8 



21.1 



44.3 



47.7 

 45.2 



50.8 



28.5 



31.3 

 29.0 



36.0 



31.2 



Early red: 



Burt 



31.1 



Red Rustproof i 



26.9 



Winter: 



Culberson 















1 This variety is grown from both spring and fall seeding in the South. 



Table XX shows that in the 5-year period from 1908 to 1912, in- 

 clusive, the Elherson outyielded both the Burt and the Red Rust- 

 proof, though exceeding the Burt by only 0.1 bushel. However, in 

 1911 and 1912 the Culberson, a winter variety, decidedly outyielded 

 aU. spring-sown oats. Additional data obtained with whiter varieties 

 in other years than those for which data are given in Table XX show 

 that in general winter oats are superior to spring oats for growing in 

 most sections of Tennessee. 



Results in Southwestern Missouri. 



The annual and average yields of the Kherson and five other varie- 

 ties of oats grown near Carthage, Mo. (18), during the 4-year period 

 from. 1910 to 1913, inclusive, are shown in Table XXI. 



