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BULLETIN 823, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Results in Nebraska. 



Table XXXV presents the annual and average yields of the Kherson, 

 the Sixty-Day, and four other varieties of oats grown at the North 

 Platte (Nebr.) substation (36, p. 17-18) during four or more years in 

 the 9-year period from 1904 to 1912, inclusive. 



Table XXXV. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson, the Sixty-Day, and four 

 other varieties of oats grown at the North Platte (Nebr.) substation during four or more 

 years in the 9-year j^eriod from 1904 to 1912, inclusive.^ 



[Data compiled from Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 135 (36, p. 17-18).] 









Yield per acre 



(bushels). 



Group and variety. 



1904 



1905 



1906 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1912 



Average. 



1905, 1906, 

 and 1908 

 to 1910, 



inclusive. 



1908 to 

 1910 

 and 

 1912. 



Early yellow: 



48.0 

 48.0 



20.0 

 20.0 



29.0 



47.0 



47.8 



43.3 



50.9 



40.7 

 27.2 

 50.7 



34.1 



40.0 

 36.0 



38.2 

 34.2 

 38.2 



23.4 



19.0 

 15.9 



9.8 

 5.0 

 19.0 



6.7 



6.8 

 8.8 



""7.'5' 

 15.8 



2.0 



35.4 



29.2 



Sixty-Day 





Early red: 



Red Rustproof (Texas Red)... 



32.2 





Red Algerian 





18.5 



Burt 









30.9 



Mdseason white: 



Swedish Select : 









16.6 





1 











1 The varieties in 1907 were destroyed by freezing, and in 1911 the crop was a total failure, due to drought. 



The data shown in Table XXXV indicate that the Kherson and the 

 Sixty-Day varieties are superior to all others at North Platte, al- 

 though the Burt has outyielded the Kherson in the four years, 1908, 

 1909, 1910, and 1912, by 1.7 bushels. Varieties other than the Sixty- 

 Day, Kherson, Burt, and Red Rustproof are of little value in central 

 and western Nebraska. 



Results in Wyoming.i 



The Elerson and Sixty-Day varieties have been included in the 

 varietal experiments at the Cheyenne Experiment Farm, Archer, 

 Wyo., since work was begun there in 1913. Two selections of Kher- 

 son from the Iowa station have been grown since 1916. Table 

 XXXVI shows the annual and average yields of the unselected 

 Kherson and Sixty-Day and of five other varieties of oats grown at 

 Archer in the 5-year period from 1913 to 1917, inclusive, together 

 with the yields of thie two Kherson selections in 1916 and 1917. 



1 The results obtained in 1913, 1914, and 1915 were reported in U. S. Department of Agriculture Bulletin 

 430 (19). Later data are compiled from unpublished reports of Mr. V. H. Florell, scientific assistant, 

 formerly in charge of cereal experiments at the Cheyenne Experiment Farm, to the Office of Cereal Inves- 

 tigations. 



