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BULLETIN" 1172, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The names and Cereal Investigations numbers of other varieties 
grown in the varietal plats but not included in Table 12 are given 
in Table 13. 
Table 12. — Yields of eight varieties of oats grown at the Plant Introduction Station* 
Chico, Calif., for three or more years in the seven-year period from 1910 to 1916, inclusive. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
Group and variety. 
C.I. 
No. 
1910 
1911 
1912 
31.0 
52.3 
60.0 
21.5 
57.5 
35.0 
24.3 
16.6 
<65.6 
58.7 
3*37.5 
30.0 
20.0 
25.0 
30.0 
30.0 
88.7 
1913 1914 
1915 
1916 
Aver- 
age. 
Per- 
centage 
yeald 
of Red 
Rust- 
proof. 
Early yellow: 
Sixty-Day 165 
Early red: 
Burt 293 
Red Rustproof (Cali- 
fornia Red) 616 
Algerian 286 
Midseason white: 
Danish Island 519 
Silvermine 520 
Ligowo 525 
Winter: 
Winter Turf (Dewey) 180 
» 43. 8 2 39. 2 » 20. 9 
26.3 
39.1 
<41.8 <5 43.3 27.3 
28.5 
38.3 
35. 3 « 51. 4 24. 5 
23.0 7 38.5 17.0 
20.4 
21.3 
44. 8 19. 5 24. 4 
102.1 
89.5 
100 
82.7 
85 
70 
77.6 
'36.9 » 38.7 24.! 
1 Average of four check plats. « Average of selections 519-1 and 519-2 substituted. 
2 Average of selections 165-1 and 165-2 substituted, i Yield of selection 520-1 substituted. 
8 Average of two check plats. 8 Yield of selection 525-1 substituted. 
* "Common oats" substituted. 9 Yield of selection 180-1 substituted. 
5 Average of three check plats. 
Table 13. — List of varieties of oats grown in plats but not included in Table 12. 
Name. 
C. I. No. Name. C. I. No. Name. 
C. I. No. 
Snoma (Winter Turf). . 
274 
276 
291 
339 
421 
522 
Turf) . 427 Tartar King 
523 
English White (Swe- 
dish Select) 
Canadian 444 Great Northern 
White Tartar 445 Gold Finder 
524 
526 
Appier (Red Rust- 
Black Tartar 446 Abundance 
527 
Red Rustproof 451 Colossal 
528 
Italian Rustproof 
Big Four 521 Fulghum 
650 
A number of the important varieties from the leading oat-produc- 
ing sections have been grown in the nursery also. Red Rustproof 
(California Red) and Fulghum, both early-maturing oats, have been - ( 
among the best varieties. 
Leading Varieties. 
As a general group the so-called red oats are preferable to all other 
types for the peculiarly hot, dry climatic conditions of the Sacra- 
mento Valley. Red Rustproof and Fulghum are distinctly warm- 
climate varieties and therefore are naturally better adapted than the 
common varieties of yellow and white oats as represented by Sixty- 
Day, Swedish Select, Silvermine, etc. Owing to the importance 
of the red oats as a group in California, descriptions of the Red 
Rustproof and Fulghum varieties follow. 
RED RUSTPROOF. 
The Red Rustproof in California has been known under several 
different names, the most usual of which are Common California Red, 
California Red, Red Coast, Red Inland, and Red Texas. It is an 
early midtall variety with fine to midcoarse but rather stiff straw. 
