CEREALS ON THE BELLE FOURCHE EXPERIMENT' TARM. 



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Table XXXIX. — Yields of the oat varieties groivn on irrigated land on the 

 Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, 1912 to 1917, inclusive. 





C.I. 

 No. 



Yields 



per acre (bushels). 





Group and variety. 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 



1918 



1919 



Aver- 

 age 

 1912 

 to 

 1919 



1915 



to 



1919. 



Early: 



Sixty-Day 



165 

 459 

 729 



787 



134 

 444 

 781 

 782 

 778 

 780 



25.0 

 30.4 



47.1 



32.5 



34.0 



28.8 



51.5 



75.0 



47.2 



42.6 



47.3 



Kherson 







Albion (Iowa No .103) 









20.2 

 18.1 



39.6 

 25.9 

 36.1 

 41.6 

 37.4 

 35.3 













Richland (Iowa No . 105) 





















Midseason: 



Swedish Select 



35.2 

 31.2 



33.0 

 39.3 



41.6 

 42.4 



46.5 

 44.7 

 50.7 

 52.3 

 51.8 



54.6 

 65.8 

 52.8 

 61.1 

 57.8 

 57.0 



77.9 

 85.2 

 74.2 

 79.2 



73.7 

 72.7 



52.1 

 50.6 



47.2 

 48.1 



54 1 



Canadian 



54.4 



Lincoln 





Silvermine 









56.8 

 61.0 





58.2 



Pete Edwards a 







50.7 



56.3 











Great Dane 







32.8 











New White Danish 











34.8 



24.7 

 42.1 













Late: 



Mammoth Cluster 



779 

 551 

 300 







43.7 

 48.6 



'52.' 8° 















41.4 

 46.8 



33.7 



56.2 



75.3 



63.0 



51.7 



57.9 



White Tartarian 

























a A local variety of the Swedish Select type. 

 O 10 



20 30 ^O kSO 



60 



70 



S/XTY D/9y 

 A7/^?^£y9^0Af-- 



SlTEff/SH SELECT 



.C/^Ni90JfiA/ 



\ ^Y"3 BU. 



^Kk<t'7.9BU. 



Fig. 18. — Diagram showing the average yields, in. bushels per acre, of five varieties of 

 oats on irrigated land at the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm for the 5-year period 

 from 1915 to 1919, inclusive. 



Table ^^1^.— Average agronomic data of oat varieties groivn on irrigated land 

 on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, 1912 to 1917, inclusive, and in 1919. 



Group and variety. 



C.I. 

 No. 



Date of— 



Height. 



Weight 



per 

 bushel. 



Yields per acre. 



Heading. 



Maturity. 



Grain. 



Straw. 



Early yellow: 



Sixty-Dav 



165 



444 

 134 



551 



July 4 



July 13 

 July 14 



July 19 



July 26 



Aug. 2 

 Aug. 5 



Aug. 13 



Inches. 

 26 



33 

 31 



33 



Pounds. 

 32.7 



36.3 

 34.9 



33.7 



Bushels. 

 38.0 



42.7 

 42.8 



48.3 



Pounds. 

 1,035 



Midseason white: 



1,498 



Swedish Select 



1,408 



Late side: 



1,793 







Table XL shows the average dates of heading and maturity, height, 

 weight per bushel, and yields of grain and straw of the four oat 



