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BULLETIN 823, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Results in Eastern North Dakota (35). 1 
The annual and average yields of the two early yellow varieties, 
Sixty-Day and Seventy-five Day, and of eight other varieties of oats 
grown at the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at 
Fargo during six or more years of the 8-year period from 1901 to 1908, 
inclusive, are shown in Table XV. These results were obtained in 
cooperation with the Office of Cereal Investigations. 
Table XV. — Annual and average yields of two early yellow and eight other varieties of 
oats grown at the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (at Fargo) during six 
or more years in the 8-year period from 1901 to 1908, inclusive. 
[Data obtained cooperatively by the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and the Bureau 
of Plant Industry.! 
Group and variety. 
North 
Dakota 
No. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1906 
1907 
1901 
to 
1904 
1908 [ and 
1906 
to 
1908 
Average. 
1902 
to 
1904 
and 
1906 
to 
1908 
Early vellow: 
Sixty-Day 
Seventy-five Day 1 
Midseason white: 
Big Four 
Abundance 
Siberian 
Lincoln 
Swedish Select . . . 
Late white (side): 
Tartarian 2 
New Zealand 
White Russian — 
666 
50.4 
617 
725 
58.8 
866 
58.9 
864 
60.5 
768 
54. 5 
1139 
388 
43.9 
868 
49.9 
238 
72.2 
96.9 
41.6 
47.5 
47.0 
33.9 
30.8 
63.9 
49.3 
55.8 
42.0 
50.7 
70.5 
71.2 
66! 1 
68.2 
77.3 
66.3 
74.9 
59.2" 
75. 4 
54.9 
67.3 
55. 5 
65. 5 
54.6 
58.7 
65.9 
59.0 
47.9 
54.2 
58.1 
50.0 
47.9 
43.7 
48.1 
55. 6 
52.5 
55. 5 
I (.0 
76.5 
60.0 
54.2 
55. 5 
55.0 
58.7 
51.0 
44.0 
35.2 
95.2 
91.5 
75.0 
66.5 
SO.O 
95.0 
67.0 
75.0 
82.5 
S4.0 
63. 
59. S 
59.4 
59.4 
59.1 
58.i 
65.7 
74.2 
60.0 
59.5 
59.2 
59.9 
54.6 
63.6 
60.1 
60.7 
S. P. I. No. 5168, similar to Sixty-Day. 
2 Probably the same-as White Russian. 
The data in Table XV show that the early yellow varieties of the 
Sixty-Day group considerably outyielded all others at Fargo in the 
seven years for which data are available, the Sixty-Day exceeding 
the Big Four, the best of the midseason varieties, by 3.7 bushels, and 
the Tartarian, a late side oat, by 2.7 bushels. While these differ- 
ences are not large enough to be regarded as significant, the yields 
indicate that in this section of the Red River Valley the early oats 
are at least as good as the midseason and late varieties. . The so- 
called ''Seventy-five Day" oat, an earlier importation from Russia, 
probably identical with v the Sixty-Day, has outyielded the latter 
at Fargo by 8.5 bushels in a 6-year period. 
Under date of December 7, 1917, Prof. R. C. Doneghue, agronomist 
of the North Dakota station, writes : 
It is my opinion, based on the trials here at Fargo, that the Sixty-Day oats are very 
well suited to the Red River Valley. They stand up very well, yield well and will 
i Data for 1907 and 1908, from unpublished annual reports of Prof. J. H. Shepperd and Mr. O. O. Churchill, 
formerly collaborator and special agent, respectively, filed in the Office of Cereal Investigations. 
