OATS IN THE GREAT PLAIN'S AREA. 
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Table XI. — Yields and cost of production of oats by different methods at the Belle Fourche 
Field Station, iunb to 1914, inclusive. 
Treatment and previous crop. 
Number 
of plats 
averaged. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
Average. 
Fall plowed: 
Wheat 
3 
1 
1 
1 
54.3 
46.9 
65.6 
64.7 























6.2 
6.6 
11.4 

16.8 
15.8 
23.1 
16.3 
12.7 
24.7 
12.2 
22.8 
15 
Oats... 
15 7 
18 7 
Flax.. . 
17 3 
Tot al or average 
6 
56.7 
6.1 
9.5 
11.7 
7.2 
17.6 
16.9 
17.8 
20.1 
16.3 
15.0 
13.0 
23.7 
16.1 
Spring plowed: 
Wheat . 
1 
1 
2 
42.5 
48.8 
60.5 
6.9 
9.2 
8.3 
15 1 
Oats. . . 
16 8 
20 
Total or average 
4 
53.1 
8.2 
8.9 
18.7 
18.8 
18 
Sod breaking: 
Alfalfa 
1 
1 
1 
65.0 
67.7 
63.8 


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7.0 
U6.7 
16.3 
25.9 
13.1 
13.0 
12.0 
12.2 
15 7 
18.8 
Clover 
19.0 
3 
65.5 
2.7 
7.9 
18.4 
12.4 
17 8 
Subsoiled: Oats 
1 
60.8 

7.3 
16.3 
20.3 
17.5 
Listed : Oats 
1 
56.7 
7. 2 
8.6 
18.7 
21.4 
18.8 
Disked; 
Corn 
6 
1 
1 
58.9 
57.3 
51.9 
7.6 
5.2 
9.8 
10.9 
10.3 
10.6 
25.6 
18.1 
29.7 
30.6 
21.1 
35.9 
22.3 
Sorghum 
18.7 
Potatoes 
23 
8 
57.8 
7.6 
10.8 
25.2 
30.1 
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Green manured: 
Rye 
1 
1 
2 
69.4 
76.6 
50.9 
9.2 
11.3 

4.8 
4.7 
7.3 
31.3 
32.8 
27.1 
29.5 
28.1 
34.6 
24.0 
Peas 
25.6 
Sweet clover 
20.0 
4 
61.9 
5.1 
6.0 
29.6 
31.7 
22.4 
Summer tilled 
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74.2 
17.4 
8.1 
34.8 
44.2 
29.8 
Average of all 32 plats 
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60.9 
6.8 
8.2 
23.9 
26.3 
21.0 
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Yields of grain: 
1909 bushels.. 
56.7 
53.1 
57.8 
56.7 
60.8 
61.9 
74.2 
65.5 
59. 3 
53. 8 
64.7 
57. 3 
51.9 
1910 do.... 

8.2 
7.6 
7.2 

5.1 
17.4 
2.7 
7.8 
2.6 

5.2 
9.8 
1911 do.... 













1912 do.... 
6.1 
8.9 
10.8 
8.6 
7.3 
6.0 
8.1 
7.9 
10.0 
8.2 

10.3 
10.6 
1913 do.... 
17.6 
18.7 
25.2 
18.7 
16.3 
29.6 
34.8 
18.4 
24.2 
17.7 
16.3 
18.1 
29.7 
1914 do.... 
16.3 
18.8 
30.1 
21.4 
20.3 
31.7 
44.2 
12.4 
28.9 
16.1 
22.8 
21.1 
35.9 
Average 
16.1 
18.0 
21.9 
18.8 
17.5 
22.4 
29.8 
17.8 
21.7 
19.7 
17.3 
18.7 
23.0 
Crop value, cost, etc.: 
v alue 
$4.83 
6.31 
$5.40 
5.84 
$6.57 
4.50 
$5.64 
5.30 
$5.25 
6.92 
$6.72 
14.36 
$8.94 
11.25 
Cost 
Profit or loss 
-1.48 
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2.07 
.34 
-1.67 
-7.64 
-2.31 

a There was no stand of clover before oats. 
