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Experiments With Oats

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Day
3
Month
June
Year
1892
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Public Domain
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Fifty named sorts of oats were sown m a comparattve test at the Ohio sta tion, in 1891, on bottomland. The va rieties were divided into foor groups 1. Those of the Welcome type, having coarse, weak straw, with plnmp, heavy white grains. 2. Varieties with open pamcle and white grain, but the grain more pointed and lighter in weight than Welcome. 3. Varieties having open panicle, but with black or mixed grain 4. Varieties in which the panicle is mor or less one sided, commonly called "sid oats." In each of these groups a typica variety was adopted as a standard, and was sown on every third plot through out the group, so that every variety had a plot of the typical sort growing along side. Welcome was chosen as the stand ard of the first group, Wideawake fo the second and Seizure for the fourth The f our mixed sorte sown in the third group were compared with Welcome. The average yield of eight plots o Welcome was 47% bushela per acre and the greatest variation between neighboring plots was two bushels Ten plots of Wideawake averaged a the rate of nearly forty-nine bushels per acre. Banner, Early'Prize Cluster Kansas Hybrid and White Canadian California White, Scottish Chief, Probutiver, Star of North Dakota, Early Da kota and others were in this group Five plots of Seizure averaged fifty-six bushels. Golden Giant, Giant Yellow French and Egyptian yielded about the same. Black Tartarian, Prince Edwarc Island, Dakota Gray, Black Prolific and Japan yielded two to five bushels more than Seizure and Wilson's Progress and Alabama feil three to eight bushels below Seizure. Of the mixed sorts with open panicle Monarch and Rustproof yielded four to eleven bushels more than Welcome, anc Black Russian and New Red Rustproo two to nine bushels less. Rustproof was the only one of these varieties that equaled Seizure in yield. It will be seen that the side oats outyielded the other kinds on the average. The varieties o: the Weloome type produced the hea viest grain, averaging about thirty-three pounds per bushei against thirty pounds on the average for the other kinds, but all yields were calculated in bushels of thirty-two pounds. The side oats had as a rule a much stiffer straw than oats of other types- a point greatly in their favor.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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