EXPERIMENTS WITH KHERSON AND SIXTY-DAY OATS. 
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Varietal experiments including the Sixty-Day oat were conducted 
by the Arkansas station at Fayetteville during the 5-year period from 
1909 to 1913, inclusive. 
During the six years from 1904 to 1909, inclusive, the United 
States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment Station, conducted varietal experiments 
with oats at McPherson, Kans. Several early yellow varieties were 
included in these experiments. No results of varietal experiments 
with oats have been published by the Oklahoma station. Three 
years' results of varietal experiments with oats have been reported 
by the Denton (Tex.) substation. 
Results in Tennessee. 
The annual and average yields of the Kherson and three other varie- 
ties of oats grown at the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station 
(28) during two or more years in the 5-year period from 1908 to 1912, 
inclusive, are presented in Table XX. 
Table XX. — Annual and average yields of the Kherson and three other varieties of oats 
grown at the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station (at Knoxville) during two or 
more years in the 5-year period from 1908 to 1912, inclusive. 
[Data compiled from Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 112 (28).] 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
Group and variety. 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
Average. 
1911 and 
1912 
1908 to 
1912 
Early yellow: 
29.5 
27.3 
20.7 
26.4 
20.2 
23.3 
43.2 
45.6 
32.7 
12.6 
14.9 
12.8 
21.1 
44.3 
47.7 
45.2 
50.8 
28.5 
31.3 
29.0 
36.0 
31.2 
Early red: 
Burt 
31 1 
26 9 
Winter: 
Culberson 
i This variety is grown from both spring and fall seeding in the South. 
Table XX shows that in the 5-year period from 1908 to 1912, in- 
clusive, the Kherson outyielded both the Burt and the Eed Rust- 
proof, though exceeding the Burt by only 0.1 bushel. However, in 
1911 and 1912 the Culberson, a winter variety, decidedly outyielded 
all spring-sown oats. Additional data obtained with winter varieties 
in other years than those for which data are given in Table XX show 
that in general winter oats are superior to spring oats for growing in 
most sections of Tennessee. 
Results in Southwestern Missouri. 
The annual and average yields of the Kherson and five other varie- 
ties of oats grown near Carthage, Mo. (18), during the 4-year period 
from. 1910 to 1913, inclusive, are shown in Table XXI. 
