OATS IN THE GREAT PLAINS AREA. 
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been the poorest in the held. This plat is plowed shaUow and given 
little cultivation. It also has a poor location in the field and results 
from it are entitled to little weight. 
Table XII. — Yields and cost of production of oats by different methods at the Scottsbluff 
Field Station, 1912, 1913, and 1914. 
Number 
of plats 
averaged. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
Treat raeut and previous crop. 
1912 
1913 
1914 
Average. 
Fall plowed: 
Wheat... 
4 
1 
1 
1 
11.5 
21.6 
9.0 
38.4 
20.4 
16.9 
22.2 
25.0 
20.2 
14.7 
15.9 
10.0 
17 4 
Oats.. 
17.7 
15.7 
Fla\ .. 
24 5 
7 
16.4 
20.8 
17.3 
18 2 
Spring plowed: 
Wheat 
2 
1 
2 
1 
25.5 
19.4 
33.8 
35.0 
25.8 
15.0 
20.8 
39.7 
14.4 
8.4 
13.9 
14.4 
21.9 
Oats.. 
14 3 
Corn 
22.8 
29.7 
6 
28.8 
24.7 
13.2 
22 2 
Sod breaking: 
Alfalfa 
1 
2 
1 
41.9 
0) 
C 1 ) 
13.4 
27.6 
20.0 
5.6 
14.4 
17.8 
20.3 
21.0 
18.9 
4 
41.9 
22.1 
13.0 
25 7 
1 
1 
8 
27.8 
25.3 
43.0 
17.5 
23.1 
19.8 
15.9 
12.8 
16.0 
20 4 
20 4 
26.3 
Green manured: 
Rye 
2 
3 
34.6 
29.6 
35.3 
29.4 
21.4 
23.4 
30.4 
27.5 
5 
31.6 
31.8 
22.6 
28.7 
4 
45.5 
44.0 
25.0 
38 2 
32.3 
25.4 
17.3 
25.0 
SUMMAEY OF YIELDS AND DIGEST OF COST. 
Tillage treatment. 
Previous crop. 
Yields, values, 
etc. (average 
per acre). 
Fall 
plowed 
(7 
plats). 
Spring 
plowed 
(6 
plats). 
Disked 
(8 
plats). 
Listed 
(1 plat). 
Sub- 
soiled 
(lplat). 
Green 
ma- 
nured 
(5 
plats). 
Sum- 
mer 
tilled 
(4 
plats). 
Corn 
(10 
plats). 
Small 
grain 
(11 
plats). 
Sod 
(4 
plats). 
Flax 
(1 
plat). 
Yields of grain: 
1912. ...bush.. 
1913.... do 
1914.... do.... 
16.4 
20.8 
17.3 
28.8 
24.7 
13.2 
43.0 
19.8 
16.0 
25.3 
23.1 
12.8 
27.8 
17.5 
15.9 
31.6 
31.8 
22.6 
45.5 
44.0 
25.0 
41.1 
20.0 
15.6 
18.2 
20.7 
16.1 
41.9 
22.1 
13.0 
38.4 
25.0 
10.0 
Average 
18.2 
22.2 
26.3 
20.4 
20.4 
28.7 
38.2 
25.6 
18.3 
25.7 
24.5 
Crop value, cost, 
etc.: 
Value 
S5. 46 
6.31 
$6.66 
5.84 
$7.89 
4.50 
$6.12 
5.30 
$6.12 
6.92 
$8. 61 
14.36 
$11. 46 
11.25 
Cost 
Profit or 
- .85 
.82 
3.39 
.82 
- .80 
-5.75 
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!In 1911 brome-grass and clover did not come up, so these plats were summer tilled, and, therefore, 
the yields are not figured in these tables. 
