OATS IN THE GREAT PLAINS AREA. 
35 
Table XVII. — Yields and cost of production of oats by different methods at the Dalhart 
Field Station, 1909 to 1914, inclusive — Continued. 
Summary ok Yields and Digest ok Cost. 
Tillage treatment. 
Previous crop. 
Yields, values, etc. 
(average per acre). 
S" 
ft 
g 
6 
ft 
08 
ft 
a 
"ft 
a 
1 
ft 
bo 
| 
ft 
CO 
3 
a 
ft 
s 
ft 
id 
.a 
h3 
C3 
ft 
1 
a 
© 
O 
I 
ft 
CO 
-d 
§ 
i 
GO 
-22 
c3 
ft 
00 
a 
o 
O 
la 
ft 
a 
i 
02 
08 
GO 
i 
c3 
a 
"el 
a 
CO 
S" 
c3 
ft 
5 
CO 
ft 
1 
ft 
M 
Yields of grain: 
1909 bushels.. 
1910 do.... 
1911 do.... 
1912 do-... 
1913 do.... 
1914 do 

(') 

0) 

1S.0 

0) 

C 1 ) 

14.0 

0) 

0) 

15.9 

0) 

0) 

23.4 

(•) 

C 1 ) 
1 
12.1 
0) 

C 1 ) 
3.3 
21.6 

0) 

0) 

16.7 

C 1 ) 

C 1 ) 

15.0' 

C 1 ) 

0) 

17.7 
3.0 
( l ) 

0) 


C 1 ) 

C 1 ) 


0) 

C 1 ) 

Average 
4.5 
3.5 
4.0 
5.9 
.3 
9.3 
4.2 
3.8 
4.4 
1.0 


Crop value, cost of 
production, etc.: 
$1.35 
6.31 
SI. 05 
5.84 
$1.20 
4.50 
$1.77 
5.30 
$0.09 
14.36 
$2. 79 
11.25 
Cost 
-4.96 
-4.79 
-3.30 
-3.53 
-14. 27 
-8.46 
1 Destroyed by hail. 
Much the same work has been done with oats at Dalhart as at the 
other field stations. Determined efforts have been made for six years 
to grow this crop under a wide range of methods of preparation and 
culture, but without success. It has been variously destroyed by hail, 
drought, and soil blowing. The few crops that have been harvested 
were grown on summer-tilled land, but the yields have been so low, 
both actually and in comparison with other crops better adapted to 
the region, as to furnish no indication of their profitable production. 
The low yields and high percentage of failures of oats at this sta- 
tion resulting from each and all of the various methods of tillage em- 
ployed indicate little possibility of overcoming conditions by any 
cultural practices. This indication is strengthened when the time 
covered by these tests is considered. It can only be concluded that 
the combination of soil and climatic conditions existing at this sta- 
tion is not congenial to the production of oats. 
The grain sorghums have produced good crops of feed every year 
at this station and have made good average grain yields. As com- 
pared with these crops oats has no place in the cropping system under 
conditions similar to those at this station. 
