28 BULLETIN 398, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
cause of hail. In 1913 and 1914 crops were produced under nearly 
normal conditions, although in 1914 the dry weather in July reduced 
the yields somewhat. The only year in the period when the late 
oats outyielded the early ones was 1915, when the rainfall for the 
growing season was 2 inches above normal and the yields obtained 
were the highest recorded at the station. 
Table XIX. — Annual and average yields of 24 varieties of oats grown in plats at the 
Judith Basin substation. Moccasin, Mont., for periods of varying length during the 
eight years from 1908 to 1915, inclusive. 1 
Group and variety. 
C I. 
Xo. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1913 
1914 
1915 
Average. 
1908 
to 
1911 
1913 
to 
1915 
lone + n 
1911. 1913 
to 1915 
Early: 
10.0 
20.5 
20.5 
67.2 
80.6 
84.4 
5. 7 
32.0 
33.0 
( 2 ) 
67.5 
71.2 
68.1 
20.7 
50.1 
52.0 
Kherson 
459 
165 
7S9 
625 
626 
751 
444 
441 
753 
754 
68.4 
75.3 
78.4 
73.4 
80.0 
73.8 
59.0 
59.0 
57.2 
56.2 
56.0 
46.3 
90.0 
93.7 
94.0 
88.4 
95.6 
99.0 
72.5 
76.0 
76.5 
72.7 
77. 2 
73.0 
58.3 
62.4 
Ol-Yl\ -Utl \ 
Sixtv-DaV selection.. . 
Do 
29.5 
58.7 
53. 7 
Do..... 
Midseason: 
Banner 
""25.4" 
30.1 
Canadian 
5.0 
20.0 
82.6 
76. S 
14.2 
23.6 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 

Danish 
56.2 
47.3 
50.0 
100.0 
•99.0 
67.8 
46.2 
Dakota No. 4 
Earlv Mountain 
10.0 
68.7 
67.8 
5.8 
18.3 
23.4 
Gartbn White 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
Golden Rain 
493 
738 
286 
487 
714 
741 
134 
742 
443 
471 
300 
342 
Lincoln 
51.0 
100.0 
Red Algerian 
5. 5 
66.4 
69.2 
15.4 
11.4 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
21.8 
Red Siberian 
SHvermine 
49.0 
46.3 
50.0 
42.9 
101.0 
98.7 
108.0 
97.0 
Siberian 

70.0 
53. 1 
71.7 
70.4 
Swedish Select 
15.0 
77.0 
22.3 
28.0 
20.1 
7.6 
18.0 
8.6 
( 2 ) 
. ( 2 ) 
(2) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
28.6 
46.5 
Victory 
Late: 
Sparrowbill 
15.0 
5.0 
13.3 
15.0 
69.0 
81.0 
67.3 
65.0 
26.0 
23.4 
24.6 
22. 1 
White Russian 
White Tartarian 
Yellow Giant 
1 Crop destroyed by hail in 1912. 
2 Made second growth during rainy weather in August; not ripe when the first frost came. 
In 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1913 the varieties were grown in unrepli- 
cated tenth-acre plats and in 1911 and 1912 in unreplicated twentieth- 
acre plats. In 1914 and 1915 they were grown in fiftieth-acre 
plats replicated five times. 
LEADING VARIETIES. 
The varieties of oats that have been grown at Moccasin may be 
divided into three groups according to then date of maturity — 
early, midseason, and late. The early oats have given the best 
average results. 
Data on average dates of heading and of maturity, height, weight 
per bushel, and yield of gram and of straw for some of the leading 
