FIEUD EXPERIMENTS IN 1914. 



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years and possibly some more of them will be discarded as 

 showing no substantial improvement over commercial varieties 

 already in existence. 



We believe that these pure lines, represent better seed than 

 can be obtained in commercial varieties. They are strictly pure 

 bred and come true to type without showing any mixture. They 

 further ripen very evenly which is a very desirable character. 

 With varieties which do not ripen evenly a considerable amount 

 of grain is lost from the shattering of over-ripe plants. 



These new varieties have not been given names but bear the 

 number by which they are known in our records, prefixed by 

 the word "Maine." The following table shows, the yield of 

 these pure lines for the two years and for 1914. The year 1914 

 was an exceptionally good one for oats and the yields are higher 

 than can be expected in a series of years. A very limited amount 

 of seed is available from some of these lines. 



Yields in Bushels per Acre of the Pure Lines of Oats Bred at 

 Highmoor Farm. 



Puke Line. 



2-year ave^ragej 



1914 yield. 





340 



Bushels. 

 91.4 

 89.4 

 88.5 

 86.8 

 85.1 

 83.6 

 83.2 

 83.2 

 81.9 

 81.5 

 81.4 

 81.2 

 80.4 

 79.8 

 79.5 



Bushels. 

 108.7 



Maine No. 

 Maine No. 

 Maine No. 



337 



336 



230... 



351 



120.0 

 101.7 

 104.2 

 100 2 



Maine No. 



286 



98.7 



Maine No. 

 Maine No. 

 Maine No. 

 Maine No. 

 Maine No. 



281 



247 



355 



357 



307 



346 



93.3 

 103.7 

 92.7 

 81.5 

 95.9 

 90.6 





264 



95.7 



Maine No. 



128 



89 5 



Maine No. 



334 



98.9 





83.7 Bushels. 



98.2 Bushels. 









Rate of Seeding Oats in Aroostook County. 



It is the prevailing custom in Aroostook County to seed very 

 heavily with oats. Perhaps the majority of the farmers sow 

 from four to six bushels to the acre. It has been the experience 

 in other parts of the country, and even in other parts of the 

 State, that this is too much s,eed for the best results. From 

 two to three bushels per acre has given the best results in the 



