CEREAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE NEPHI SUBSTATION. oi 
high percentage of winter survival among the plants. Then Mr. 
Boswell planted all the seed he had obtained from the second year’s 
crop on his dry farm, which adjoins the substation on the south. 
He succeeded in getting a yield of 50 bushels to the acre in 1908 
and since then he has obtained yields of from 25 to 40 bushels to the 
acre each year. 
The yields obtained on the substation have not been so large as 
those on the Boswell farm. In 1907 the crop was planted on land 
that had produced a crop of wheat that year, and so much volunteer 
wheat grew that it was impossible to determine the oat yield in 1908. 
In 1909 the yield was 16 bushels per acre and in 1910 only 5.3 bushels. 
This low yield is difficult to understand, for on the Boswell farm and 
on: some other farms in that vicmity where the oat was planted 
at approximately the same time a yield of about 25 bushels per acre 
was obtained. From the general appearance of the plat it was 
thought at the time that the drill had ‘‘missed”’ considerably at 
seeding time. This, however, was not known to have been the case. 
In 1911 a yield of 38.1 bushels per acre was obtained at the sub- 
station, while about 35 bushels per acre were obtained on the Boswell 
farm. The average yield at the substation during the period from 
1909 to 1912 was 17.2 bushels per acre. 
In the fall of 1911 a rate-of-seeding test and a date-of-seeding test 
with the Boswell Winter oat were begun. The highest yield obtamed 
from these tests in 1912 was 19.8 bushels per acre; the lowest’ yield 
was 0.5 of a bushel. The average yield of eight plats in the tests 
was 9.2 bushels per acre. One other plat yielded 15 bushels per acre. 
Although the Boswell Winter oat has not given very satisfactory 
yields on the substation, it is a promising variety. The rate, date, 
and depth of planting largely govern the yield, and these factors are 
bemg determined. 
This variety has been sown extensively on farms in various parts 
of the West, and reports show varying degrees of success. In many 
localities it is believed that this oat will prove a success, while in 
other localities the results are not so promising. The color of the 
hull is objected to commercially, but the quality of the oat is very 
high and it is a valuable stock feed. 
SPRING Oats. 
Seven varieties of spring oats have been tested. Three of these— 
the Sixty-Day, the Black American, and the Giant Yellow—have 
been grown since 1904. The Swedish Select and an improved strain 
of Sixty-Day were obtained from the Highmore substation in South 
Dakota in 1908. The former has been grown since that time, 
but the latter was discarded in 1909 because it was mixed with 
another variety. The Kherson variety was received from the Akron 
