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Table XI. — The weight of 1,000 grains and the percentage of hull, water, and 
protein of 10 varieties of oats grown at the Highmore, S. Dak., substation 
in 1910. 
S. Dak. 
No. 
C.I. 
No. 
Variety. 
Weight 
of 1,000 
grains. 
Hull in 
whole 
grain. 
Water 
content. 
Protein. 
157 
626 
165 
165 
115 
539 
112..;.. 
134 
174 
174 
26 
286 
286 
336 
336 
Sixty-Day selection 
Sixty-Day 
Kherson 
Swedish Select 
North Finnish Black 
Ligowo (Minn. No. 6) 
Early Gothland (Minn. No. 26) 
Regenerated Swedish Select 
Red Algerian 
Belyak 
Average 
Grams. 
21.2 
17.2 
19.1 
27.3 
17.8 
27.3 
22.3 
28.8 
28.8 
24.1 
Per cent. 
22.2 
24.0 
24.9 
25.5 
25.7 
27.0 
27.1 
27.8 
28.3 
28.9 
Per cent. 
8.63 
7.82 
7.79 
7.43 
7.76 
7.13 
7.27 
7.44 
7.48 
7.18 
23.4 
26.1 
Per cent. 
18.56 
17.50 
15.75 
17.00 
16.50 
16.69 
17.12 
15.75 
14.63 
15.87 
7.59 
16.54 
LEADING VARIETIES FOR SOUTH DAKOTA. 
The varieties of oats commonly grown in South Dakota have been 
obtained from the States to the eastward and from Canada. Accord- 
ing to the results of these trials, they are not as well adapted to local 
conditions as certain other varieties imported from regions having 
climatic conditions more nearly like those prevailing in South Dakota. 
Recently considerable progress has been made in bringing better 
adapted varieties into common use, but even yet there is far too large 
a proportion of the crop grown from seed of unadapted varieties. 
Other things being equal, the best variety to grow of a given crop 
is the one which has made the best average performance record. 
With definite information about each the farmer can make up his 
mind which is preferable for his conditions. The varieties of oats 
which have succeeded best in the tests here reported are the Sixty- 
Day, Kherson, and Swedish Select. 
Sixty-Day. 1 — The Sixty-Day oat (C. I. No. 165, S. Dak. No. 165) 
may be distinguished from other varieties by its small, slender, yel- 
lowish white grain. It ripens early and thus escapes climatic condi- 
tions that seriously injure later varieties. Mainly for this reason it 
exceeds all varieties in yield at Brookings, where it produced 47 per 
cent more grain than the Banner and 11 per cent more than the 
Swedish Select during the period from 1906 to 1912, as reported in 
Table VIII. At Highmore, where the late varieties have not been 
injured by hail, the Sixty-Day has not yielded as well as the later 
Swedish Select, but it has outyielded the Banner by 9.5 per cent. At 
Cottonwood the conditions have been a little more favorable to the 
Sixty-Day than to the later varieties. At Eureka the climatic condi- 
1 For a full discussion of the Sixty-Day and Kherson varieties of oats, see Warburton, 
C. W., Sixty-Day and Kherson oats, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 
395, 27 p., 5 fig., 1910. 
