CLOSED PANICLE OATS. 21 



(&) CLOSED PANICLE OATS. 



(6) White Russian. — Reports were received from one liundred and 

 eighty-four persons, distributed over thirty- three States and Territories 

 and seven Canadian Provinces. Generally speaking this variety is 

 cultivated almost entirely iu the Transition zone, where it reaches its 

 best and most profitable development, the reported yields ranging from 

 35 up to 100 bushels per acre. It is much more largely grown than 

 all other varieties together in the Northwest, in the Dakotas, Minne- 

 sota, Montana, Manitoba, Assiniboia, Alberta, and British Columbia. 

 It is reported as grown to a considerable extent in Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Colorado, Ontario, New Bruns- 

 wick, northern New England, West Virginia, northern Indiana, north- 

 ern Illinois, Ohio, and Oregon. It is also reported from Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, and 

 Delaware. 



Along the border of the Upper Austral and Transition zones this 

 oat does very well, but where reported from the Lower Austral, with 

 the exception of Louisiana, it is not grown with success. The point 

 in Louisiana is in West Carroll Parish, and probably the correspond- 

 ent names it incorrectly, for from no other point in the Lower Austral 

 have satisfactory reports been received of the growth of the large 

 white varieties of oats. They can not withstand the climatic condi- 

 tions. Two reports from upper Alberta and seven from New Bruns- 

 wick and Nova Scotia indicate the successful growth of white Russian 

 oats in the Boreal region; in fact the largest yield reported (100 bushels 

 per acre) is from Nova Scotia, which station, however, probably lies 

 within the Transition zone, 



(7) Black Tartarian. — Forty-nine correspondents report this variety 

 from Idaho and eight Canadian Provinces. It seems to grow with 

 success in the higher Upper Austral, all tlirough the Transition, and 

 in the Boreal zone. In Ontario it succeeds along the north shore of 

 Lake Erie in the Upper Austral, while iu British Columbia, on Van- 

 couver Island, and in Saskatchewan, at Saskatoon and Osier, fair crops 

 are secured. Its most extended cultivation seems to be iu eastern 

 Assiniboia, southern Manitoba, and Nova Scotia. It is really best 

 adapted to the Transition zone. (See fig. 3, p. 20.) 



