BULLETIN" 823, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The New York (Cornell) and the Pennsylvania agricultural 
experiment stations also report varietial experiments which include 
the Kherson and Sixty-Day oats. 
Results in Maine. 
The annual and average yields of the Kherson and of seven other 
varieties of oats grown at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Orono (41, 42, 43) during the 6-year period from 1910 to 1915, 
inclusive, are shown in Table II. 
Table II. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson and of seven other commercial 
varieties of oats grown at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (at Orono) 
during the 6-year period from 1910 to 1915, inclusive. 
[Data compiled from Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins 229 and 250 (41 and 43).] 
Group and variety. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1910 
1911 
1912 
Aver- 
age. 
Early yellow: Kherson 
Midseason yellow: Imported Scotch 1 . 
Midseason white: 
Banner 
Prosperity 
Irish Victor 
Swedish Select 
Late white (side): Senator 
69.4 
60.0 
70.8 
65.5 
70.5 
72.1 
53.5 
47.8 
62.4 
45.8 
52.8 
55. 6 
40.9 
3S.3 
52.7 
62.2 
62.6 
67.4 
61.6 
56.5 
53.5 
60.8 
67.7 
62.7 
63.0 
67.0 
60.9 
51.7 
83.6 
63.4 
67.4 
69.7 
69.2 
6S.9 
63.1 
56.4 
1 The identity of this variety is not definitely known. 
The data in Table II show rather conclusively that the midseason 
varieties outyield the Kherson at Orono. Banner and Prosperity, 
the leading midseason varieties, have exceeded the Kherson in 6-year 
average yield by 6.3 and- 5.8 bushels, respectively. On the other 
hand, the Kherson has outyielded the Senator, a late side oat, by 7 
bushels. 
Several pure lines of the Kherson have been tested at the Maine 
station, but proved to be decidedly inferior to pure lines of Banner, 
Irish Victor, and Imported Scotch and therefore were discarded. 
Results in New Hampshire. 
The annual and average yields of the Kherson and four other 
varieties of oats grown at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station at Durham (44, p. 141-146) for two or more years of 
the 4-year period from 1906 to 1909, inclusive, are given in Table III. 
Although several varieties were grown in 1904, no data on yields 
are available, as all varieties were destroyed by rust. 
The data in Table III are not sufficient to determine the value of 
the Kherson oat for New Hampshire conditions. However, they 
indicate that the early varieties are of some promise, because they 
usually escape the rust and for that reason may outyield the mid- 
season varieties in a series of years. In the two years for which 
