OAT VARIETIES FOR THE CORK BELT 29 
yielding ability to midseason varieties, such as Silvermine and 
Swedish Select, and are to be highly recommended for that State. 
At Lincoln, Xebr., Albion and Richland have both slightly out- 
yielded the parent variety, Kherson, and therefore are Avell adapted 
for growing in that State. Nebraska No. 21, a strain morphologically 
identical with Albion, has been equally satisfactory. 
At Manhattan, Kans=, Kanota, a strain of Fulghum, has been 
decidedly superior in yield to the Iowa selections. This variety is 
being recommended by the Kansas station. 
At Moccasin, Mont., the results are similar to those in North Da- 
kota. Silvermine, the highest yielding variety, however, has ex- 
ceeded the yield of Richland by only 2.5 bushels per acre. Richland, 
in turn, has outyielded the parent variety, Sixty-Day, only slightly. 
In Wyoming, at Cheyenne, both Albion and Richland have pro- 
duced lower average yields than Kherson. The early varieties as a 
group, however, are equal in yield to the best midseason varieties, 
such as Victory, Ligowa, and Golden Rain. At Sheridan, Wyo., 
Albion has been exceeded in yield by the midseason varieties. Silver- 
mine and Swedish Select, but the parent variety, Sixty-Day, has pro- 
duced the highest yield of all. 
In Colorado the results at Akron show Albion to be practically 
identical in yield with the Kherson parent. Burt is very slightly 
superior to both these varieties, although not significantly so. 
Under irrigation at Aberdeen in southern Idaho the early varieties 
can not compete with Golden Rain, Idamine, and other later matur- 
ing oats. 
At Nephi, Utah, Albion has outyielded the Sixty-Day parent over 
a six-3^ear period by only 1.1 bushels. Swedish Select, a midseason 
white oat, has outyielded Albion by 2.4 bushels and is preferable to 
any of the earlier varieties. 
At INIoro, Oreg., there has been little difference in the yields of 
Albion and Richland and those of the parent varieties, Kherson and 
Sixty-Da}^ Such midseason varieties as Markton and Three-Grain, 
however, produce higher 3delds than any of the early types and 
therefore are to be recommended. 
SUMMARY 
In this bulletin there are described four oat varieties, Albion, 
Richland, lowar, and logren, which have been developed coopera- 
tively by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and the Office 
of Cereal Investigations of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
Albion was developed from a single plant selected from Kherson 
in 1906. Owing to the demand for an earl}^ variety with white 
kernels, even though Albion did not show superiority in yield to 
Kherson, its distribution was begun in 1913. The variety immedi- 
ately became popular, and it was estimated that nearly 1,500,000 
acres were grown in the Corn Belt in 1919, while in 1924 almost this 
acreage Avas grown in Iowa alone. 
Richland, an early yellow oat, is a companion strain of Albion and 
has about the same history. It was selected from Kherson in 1906, 
primarily because of its short, rather stiff culm. It was first dis- 
tributed in 1914. In yielding power it is superior to both Kherson 
