EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS. 9 
yields of Kherson are reported it averaged slightly better than any 
other variety. 
Table III. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson and four other varieties of oats 
grown at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (at Durham) during two or 
more years in the 4-year period ffom 1906 to 1909, inclusive. 
[Data compiled from New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 145 (44, p. 141-146).] 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
Group and variety. 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
Average. 
1906 to 1909 
1908 and 
1909 
34.6 
25.5 
24.3 
31.0 
31.5 
36.6 
31.9 
40.0 
35.8 
33.1 
35.6 
Midseason yellow: 
31.6 
38.1 
24.1 
35.3 
68.1 
52.5 
57.5 
68.7 
39.3 
38.7 
37.1 
42.2 
28.7 
32.2 
33.4 
Late white (side): Long's White Tar- 
32.3 
1 The true Welcome is a midseason white variety. 
Under date of November 26, 1917, Prof. F. W. Taylor, agronomist, 
writes : 
We have not grown any Kherson oats since 1909, and for that reason have no data 
other than that published in Bulletin 145. Everything considered, I do not think 
the Kherson oat is as well adapted to New Hampshire as some other strains like the 
Lincoln and Long's White Tartar. What we need here is an oat that does not run too 
much to straw and one which has at least some rust-resisting qualities. 
Results in New York. ' 
At the Cornell University station (Ithaca) (23) the oat varietal 
experiments have been conducted in cooperation with the United 
States Department of Agriculture since 1907. While several pure- 
line selections of the Sixty-Day oat have been included in these 
experiments, only one (No. 5938-1) has been of sufficient promise to 
warrant its retention throughout the entire 11-year period from 1907 
to 1917, inclusive. The annual and average yields of two pure-line 
selections of the Sixty-Day, six selections from other varieties, and 
two unselected commercial varieties grown at Ithaca in seven or 
more years of the 11-year period from 1907 to 1917, inclusive, are 
shown in Table IV. 
The data in Table IV indicate clearly that the midseason white 
varieties will outyield the early yellow varieties in New York. The 
difference between the highest yielding Sixty-Day selection (5938-1) 
and the Welcome selection (123-5), the leading variety at Ithaca, is 
4.2 bushels. However, the Sixty-Day selection approaches the mid- 
season varieties more closely in yield than might generally be expected 
and in unfavorable years may surpass them. 
1 Data since 1913 are from unpublished annual reports of Dr. H. H. Love, collaborator, and Mr. W. T. 
Craig, agent, to the Office of Cereal Investigations. 
