278 FIELD CROPS FOR THE COTTON-BELT 



Thaggard and Hundred Bushel; (2) Burt or May oats; 

 (3) Turf or Grazing oats, of which the Virginia Gray is 

 the representative variety;' (4) Beardless Red oats, of 

 which the Fulghum variety is an example. 



The type of oats most generally grown in the South 

 is the Red Rust-proof. Next in importance is the Turf 

 or Grazing oats. 



The relative productiveness of the four types of oats 

 grown in the cotton-belt, as shown by tests at the Alabama 

 station ^ is shown below: 



1 Average percentage indicating 



Bed Rust-proof group or type: relative yields of grain. 



Appier (tested 9 years) 110 



Red Rust-proof (tested 10 years) 100 



Bancroft (tested 4 years) 99 



Hundred Bushel (tested 3 years) 98 



Culberson (tested 3 years) 95 



Fulghum (tested 9 years) 73 



Burt (tested 7 years) 70 



Turf, Va. Gray or winter type 



oat (tested 4 years) 48 



337. Red Rust-proof oats. — The typical variety 

 of this group takes the name of the type to which it be- 

 longs, namely. Red Rust-proof. It is also called Texas 

 Red Rust-proof , Texas Red, Red, and Red Texas. The 

 Red Rust-proof variety and its various strains are char- 

 acterized as follows: (1) Greater resistance to rust than 

 other southern types. (2) Greater length of the slender 

 bristles at the base of the larger grain. In other types 

 commonly grown in the south these bristles are either 

 absent or very short. (3) Both grains in each spikelet 

 usually bearded, the beards being long and borne midway 

 between the base and tip of grain, especially on the larger 

 1 Ala. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 173, p. 132. 



