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BULLETIN 498, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Canadian. The 5-year average yield was only slightly less than that 
of the Sixty-Day and Kherson, exceeding that of any other variety 
by several bushels. A head of the Siberian oat is shown in figure 15. 
Fig. 15.— Heads of oats grown at the Moro substation: A, Siberian; B, Canadian. 
Canadian. — The Canadian is a variety of oats which has been 
grown for many years in Scotland and in some portions of northern 
Europe as the Barley oat, so called because of its short, broad ker- 
nels, which somewhat resemble a grain of barley. The Canadian 
ripens at Moro about a week later than the Kherson and Sixty-Day, 
