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BULLETIN" 823, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XXXII. — Annual and average yields of eight early yellow and four other varieties 
of oats grown at the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, Newell, S. Dak., during two or 
more years in the 10-year period from 1908 to 1917, inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.] 
C.I. 
No. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
Group and variety. 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
i 
Average. 
1915 
1916 1917 
1908 
to 
1917 
1912 
to 
1917 
1912 
to 
1915 
Early yellow: 
459 
165 
625 
626 
165-566 
147.5 
146.6 
125.7 
25.0 
U5.0 
15.6 
14.4 
16.6 




6.2 
?1 q 
13.8 
13." 4 
14.2 
12.2 
110.8 
113.7 
107.2 
117.1 
106.7 
40.8 
37.4 
33.8 
34.1 
31.6 
37.9 
38 ?, 
Sixtv-Dav 
6. 6 22. 7 
7.9 
9.9 
7.1 
21.6 
24.6 
23.3 
37 •> 
Do 
43.4 
41.8 
35.6 
33.5 
35.9 
33.8 
30.6 
30.6 
40.9 
37.5 
41 5 
Do 
37 3 
729 
787 
337 
7.5 
6.0 
9.2 
10.4 
m. 7 
21.0 
22.4 
15.2 
18.5 
14 3 
12.8 
16.0 



102.5 
36 
Ear lv red: 
Burt 
293 
134 
444 
551 
108. 38. 
37.4 
19.7 
26.0 
38.0 
31.8 
38 1 
Midseason white: 
Swedish Select 
38.1 
38.8 
30.9 
28.4 
21.3 
20.0 
2.3 
4.4 




113. 7 33. 
34 5 
92.9 
106 1 
30 5 
Late white (side): 
White Russian 
26.8. 
6.4 
22.7 
29.4 
35 8 
Average of two plats. 
RESULTS AT COTTONWOOD. 
The only varieties included in the experiments at the Cottonwood 
substation are the Sixty-Day and the Swedish Select. In Table 
XXXIII the annual and average yields of these varieties obtained 
at Cottonwood during the 9-year period from 1909 to 1917, inclusive, 
are presented. 
Table XXXIII. — Annual and average yields of the Sixty-Day and Sivedish Select oat 
varieties grown at the Cottonwood and Eureka (S. Dak.) substations during the 9-year 
period from 1909 to 1917, inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.] 
South 
Dakota 
No. 
CI. 
No. 
Yield per acre (.bushels;. 
Station, group, and variety. 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
Aver- 
age. 
COTTONWOOD SUBSTATION. 
Earlv vellow: Sixty-Day 
165 
112 
165 
112 
165 
134 
165 
134 
12.5 
7.2 
37.2 
43.7 
4.4 
6.3 
20.2 
25.0 




25.9 
16.6 
6.1 
4.7 
4.7 
.6 
15.8 
3.3 
U4.8 
19.4 
37.5 
28.5 
20 
20 
110.6 
95.8 
29.1 
15.9 
60.1 
53.7 
24.7 
10.3 
46.2 
35.8 
12.9 
Midseason white: Swedish Select. 
EUREKA SUBSTATION. 
Early vellow: Sixty-Day 
7.4 
37.1 
Midseason white: Swedish Select. 
32.3 
Yield from method-of-seeding experiment at Cottonwood. 
2 Destroyed by hail. 
The data given in Table XXXIII indicate that the Sixty-Day is 
superior to the Swedish Select for growing in the vicinity of Cotton- 
wood, though neither variety has produced profitable yields. 
