6 BULLETIN 1481, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
LOCATION OF EXPERIMENTS 
The Office of Cereal Crops and Diseases of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry for a number of years has conducted experiments with fall- 
sown oats at the Arlington Experiment Farm, Rosslyn, Va., near 
Washington, D. C. Varietal and cultural experiments also have 
been conducted cooperatively in Georgia by the Georgia State 
College of Agriculture and the Office of Cereal Crops and Diseases. 
These experiments were located at the Georgia State College of 
Agriculture, Athens, Ga., at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, 
and the South Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical School, Tifton, 
Ga., at the farm of J.S. Shingler, Auburn, Ga., and at the county farm, 
Quitman, Ga. Summarized average data from varietal experiments 
conducted independently by agricultural experiment stations in other 
Fig. 5.—Fall-sown oat nursery at the Arlington Experiment Farm in early spring. Effects of 
winter killing are seen in the foreground 
Southern States also are presented. It is realized that the data last 
mentioned are meager and from scattered sources, but they are in- 
cluded to make the information on the behavior of fall-sown oat 
varieties as complete as possible. ~ 
VARIETAL EXPERIMENTS 
The determination of the adaptation and yielding power of varieties 
always is one of the most important phases of crop-improvement 
investigations. Much of the information now available on fall-sown 
oats has been obtained from varietal experiments. 
RESULTS AT THE ARLINGTON EXPERIMENT FARM IN VIRGINIA 
The location and history of the Arlington Experiment Farm, 
with descriptions of climate, soil type, soil treatment, experimental 
methods, etc,, have been presented fully in earlier publications (7, 9). 
