THE MARVEL OATS. 
NEW ! WHITE ! BRANCH ! 
Imported from Bavaria. Remarkable for stooling qualities. Wonderfully productive. Thin 
hull. Unexcelled for feeding. 
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. 
IV / 1 ARVEL OATS were first brought to pur attention in 1898, when we became much interested 
1 ' * in the splendid appearance of one acre grown in a test plot. The history of this test reads 
as follows : 
April 25th, 1898. — Two bushels of MARVEL OATS were 
sown upon one measured acre of heavy loam with clay sub-soil. 
In the same field were four other varieties, each covering one 
measured acre, viz. : Silver Mine, Probestier, American Banner, 
and Golden Giant. Each variety had same fertilization and 
cultivation, and an equal chance. On June 7th, Silver Mine 
oats measured 20 inches from the ground to tip of longest blades 
in the best part of the plot. Probestier, in the same way, mea- 
sured 23 inches ; American Banner, 23 inches ; Golden Giant, 
25 inches ; the HARVEL measured 29 inches, and was the most 
uniform piece of oats we ever noted. 
MARVEL OATS were three 
days earlier than the other var= 
ieties, and yielded 9lj4 bushels! 
Silver Mine yielded 63 bushels ; Probestier, 60 bushels ; Amer- 
ican Banner, 65 bushels ; and Golden Giant, a side oat, 72 
bushels. All varieties were branch oats, except the Golden 
Giant, which is a mane or side oat. 
Probestier, Silver Mine, and American Banner at first pro- 
mised well, but a prolonged drouth, which set in about the 
time heads were forming, prevented the filling of many of the 
heads, and as a consequence there were many light oats. 
Under favorable conditions, it is possible that all of the oats 
might have shown as good results as the HARVEL; but, as the 
1899 crop of MARVEL OATS, not yet harvested, shows the 
same advantage over other varieties in fields near by, we are 
lead to say — 
Give us an oat which is not so 
easily affected by the weather 
conditions. Give us an IRON= 
CLAD. No other variety we 
know of deserves the name more 
than — 
THE MARVEL. 
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