UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 823 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industr/ 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



May 24, 1920 



EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND 

 SIXTY-DAY OATS 



By 



C. W. WARBURTON, Agronomist in Charge, and T. R. STANTON 



Assistant Agronomist in Oat Investigations 



Office of Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 1 



Scope of the Investigations 



Sources of Data 



History of Kherson and Sixty-Day Oats 

 Description of Kherson and Sixty-Day 



Oats 



Experimental Data 



Varietal Experiments in the Eastern 



Half of the United States .... 



Results in the North Atlantic 



States 



Results in the East North-Central 



States 



Results in tlie West North-Central 



Section 



Results in the Lowcf Mississippi 

 Valley 30 



12 



20 



Page 

 Experimental Data — Continued. 



Varietal Experiments in the Western 

 Half of the United States .... 36 

 Results in the Northern Great 



Plains Area 36 



Results in the Soath«)m Great 



Plains Area 50 



Results in the Western Basin 



and Coast Areas 52 



Results under Irrigation ... 60 



Summary of Data 66 



General Conclusions 68 



Yield of Straw, Bushel Weight, and Im- 

 provement Data 69 



Literature Cited . 70 



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