EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS. D 
The Kherson and Sixty-Day are early in maturing, ripening from 
90 to 100 days after sowing, or about 10 to 15 days earlier than most 
other varieties. It is the earliness of these varieties which has made 
Fig. 2.— Panicles and spikelets of two early yellow varieties of oats; 1, Kherson; 2, Sixty-Day. 
them particularly valuable in the corn belt and in the Great Plains 
area. Because of their earliness they are enabled to escape to some 
extent injury by drought, storms, and rust. 
