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BULLETIN 823, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The data in Table XXX show that both the midseason and late 
white oats have decidedly outyielded the Sixty-Day at the Langdon 
substation. 
The yields of the side-oat varieties, New Zealand, White Russian, 
and Select Tartarian, have averaged several bushels more than those 
of the midseason open-pan- 
icled varieties. This condi- 
tion occurs so rarely that it 
seems worthy of special men- 
tion. Early oats are not rec- 
ommended for this section of 
North Dakota. A panicle and 
spikelets of the White Russian 
oat are shown in figure 10. 
RESULTS AT EDGELEY. 
The annual and average 
yields of the Sixty-Day, the 
Kherson, and seven other va- 
rieties of oats grown at the 
Edgeley, N. Dak., substation 
(45, p. 28) during three or 
more years in the 10-year 
period from 1903 to 1912, in- 
clusive, are presented in Table 
XXXI. 
According to the data given 
in Table XXXI there is little 
choice between the early yel- 
low and the midseason white 
varieties for growing in the 
vicinity of Edgeley. Only 
the Siberian, Sixty-Day, and 
Swedish Select have been 
grown during the entire period. 
They rank in average 3^6^ in 
the order named. In the six 
years from 1905 to 1910, inclusive, the Abundance, Big Four, Siberian, 
and Sixty-Day produced almost identical average yields. The results 
appear to be slightly in favor of the midseason varieties. It is 
probable that the rather thin soil of this section accounts for the 
better performance of early oats at Edgeley than elsewhere in North 
Dakota. 
Fig. 10.— Panicle and spikelets of a late white (side) 
variety of oats, White Russian. 
