TESTS OF SELECTIONS OF OATS. 23 



made up to that time. This number was further reduced to 30 after 

 the 1910 test. All the tests were made in 17-foot rows. 



The highest average yields for the five years from 1908 to 1912, 

 inclusive, have been produced by selections 34al-19-4 and 34al-13-3 

 from the hybrid Burt X Sixty-Day, 54.4 and 52.1 bushels, respec- 

 tively. Other high-yielding selections are 138-5 (Early Cham- 

 pion), 48.3 bushels; 34al-25-3 (Burt X Sixty-Day), 46.6 bushels; 

 62-II-6-3 (Sixty-Day), 45.8 bushels; 34al-ll-3 (Burt X Sixty-Day), 

 45.7 bushels; and 34al-25-2 and 34al-27-4 (Burt X Sixty-Day), 

 45.6 bushels. Of the selections grown for six years the highest average 

 yields have been produced by selection 138-5 (Early Champion)) 

 46.3 bushels; 62-II-6-3 (Sixty-Day), 43.2 bushels; and 34al-24 

 (Burt X Sixty-Day), 40.8 bushels. 



In 1912 the six selections which produced the highest yields for 

 the three years from 1908 to 1910 were grown in twentieth-acre plats 

 in comparison with ordinary unselected Burt oats. The yields of 

 these selections were as follows: 34al-ll-3, 60.6 bushels to the acre; 

 34al-13-3, 56.6 bushels; 138-5, 55.4 bushels; 34al-12-l, 54.1 bush- 

 els; 34al-19-4, 53.4 bushels; 34al-24, 53.1 bushels; and Burt, 44 

 bushels. From the yields obtained in these tests and in the nursery, 

 it seems probable that some of the selections from the hybrid 

 Burt X Sixty -Day and from the commercial varieties Early Champion 

 and Sixty-Day will prove of value in Kentucky. 



TENNESSEE.i 



Samples of seed of 112 selections were sent to the Tennessee exper- 

 iment station in the spring of 1908. Tins lot was largely composed 

 of selections from series 8 (Danish Island X Asia Minor Rustproof), 

 series 33 (Burt X Burt), series 34 (Burt X Sixty-Day), and series 42 

 (Asia Minor Rustproof X Clydesdale). In 1908 these selections pro- 

 duced fairly good yields, but the following year and each year there- 

 after the spring-oat crop at the Tennessee station has either been 

 destroyed by storms or so badly damaged as the result of them that 

 no yields have been reported. Under date of October 19, 1912, 

 Prof. C. A. Mooers writes: 



We have had a rather unfortunate outcome to our trials of spring-oat selections. 

 The last three years they have almost invariably been blown down and badly lodged 

 before reaching maturity, which, of course, causes them to fill out poorly. We con- 

 tinued to discard those which were least promising, and this year we planted only 

 the following, which seem to be closely related: 



31al-16-l-5. 34al-ll-2-3. 34al-ll-2-6. 



34al-ll-l. 34al-ll-2-4. 34al-13-5. 



34al-ll-2-l. 34al-l 1-2-5. 



J The tests at the Tennessee station were made by Prof. C. A. Mooers, to whom acknowledgments are 

 due for the results here reported. 



