EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS. 21 
The few data given in Table XII are not very conclusive. The 
Sixty-Day variety apparently has decidedly outyielded the Kherson, 
but the difference is due to an unexplained wide variation in yields 
in 1906. The best midseason white varieties, Myrick Banner and 
Lincoln, have yielded slightly less than the Sixty-Day. Typical pani- 
cles and spikelets of three leading midseason white varieties of oats 
are shown in figure 5. 
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Fig. 5.— Panicles and spikelets of three midseason white varieties of oats: 1, Victory; 2, Silvcrmine; 3, 
Swedish Select. 
In a letter dated December 20, 1917, Prof. A. C. Amy, agronomist 
of the Minnesota station, states that in an experiment with heavy, 
medium, and light seed in which Ligowo and Sixty-Day (Minn. No. 
261) were used, the Sixty-Day consistently outyielded the Ligowo in 
all cases in 1914, 1915, and 1916, but that the yields were reversed 
in 1917. He further states that the Victory oat has been the leading 
variety at the Minnesota station in recent years, and that a selection 
