22 BULLETIN 99, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



34al-12-3, 88.28 bushels; 49al-25-4, 87 bushels; 34al-l 1-2-6, 86.72 

 bushels; 34al-l 1-2-4, 85.94 bushels; and 34al-12-l-l, 83.59 bushels. 

 The tests in 1911 and 1912 included only five of the strains, one of 

 series 49 and four of series 34, the four strains which were grown on 

 tenth-acre plats in 1 910 having been lost. The highest average yields 

 for the two years were produced by selections 34al-l 1-2-3 and 

 34al-l 1-2-6, 72.72 and 72.45 bushels to the acre, respectively, as 

 compared with 75.38 bushels from a selection of Improved American 

 made at the Ohio station and 75.18 bushels from a commercial lot 

 of Silvermine. It is unfortunate that the strains of series 8 and 50, 

 which were so promising in the earlier tests, were necessarily discon- 

 tinued, as it is believed that they would have equaled or exceeded 

 in yield those of series 34 and 49. From such evidence as is available 

 the hybrids among those tested which appear to be of greatest value 

 for Ohio are Danish Island X Asia Minor Rustproof, Burt X Sixty- 

 Day, Sixty-Day X Clydesdale, and Sixty-Day X Probsteier. 



INDIANA.1 



Fifty-five selections were sent to the Indiana experiment station 

 for testing in 1909. As the quantity of seed sent was small, they 

 were grown in short rows that year, and no record was taken of 

 the yields obtained. The following year all were grown in plats 

 of one one-hundred-and-thirty-second of an acre each. Because of 

 lack of space 20 strains were discarded after the 1910 harvest and 14 

 more after the 1911 harvest. The 1911 and 1912 tests were made in 

 plats of one-twentieth of an acre each. The highest average yield 

 for the three years, 54.4 bushels to the acre, was produced by selec- 

 tion 34al-l 1-2-1 from the hybrid Burt X Sixty-Day. This selec_ 

 tion also produced the heaviest yield of straw. None of the other 

 selections from this hybrid were high in yield. Selections 49a2-12, 

 Sixty-Day X Clydesdale, and 50al-20-7, Sixty-Day X Probsteier, 

 ranked next in yield, with averages of 51.8 and 50.5 bushels, respec- 

 tively. The highest yielding selection of Sixty-Day was 62-II-19-1, 

 with an average of 48.6 bushels. Of the strains tested, those just 

 mentioned appear to be most promising. 



KENTUCKY." 



A lot of 33 oat selections was sent to Prof. W. H. Scherffius at the 

 Kentucky experiment station by Mr. Norton in 1907. The following 

 year 56 selections wore addod. These were all grown in 1908 and 

 1909. After the 1909 harvest the number of selections was reduced 

 to 49 by the elimination of those that were low in yield in the tests 



1 The tests at the Indiana station were conducted by I'rof. A. T. Wiancko, to whom acknowledgments 

 are due for the results here reported. 



'The writer is indebted to Profs. W. H. Scherffius, George Roberts, and E. J. Kinney for the data pre- 

 sented from the Kentucky station. 



