Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-19
EXPERIMENTS WITH DIFFERENT
VARIETIES OF OATS.
Tho Yields Compared.

Fifty different named sorts of oats
were sown in comparative test at the
Ohio Experiment Station in 1891, on Il
piece of bottom land which had been
in corn the previous season.
The varieties were divided into four
groups: (1), those of the Welcome type.
having coarse, weak straw, with
plump, heavy white grain; (2), varieties
with open panicle and white grain,
but the grain more pointed and lighter
in weight than the Welcome; (3), yarie-
ties having open panicle, but with
black or mixed grain, and (4), varieties
in which the panicle is more or less
sided, commonly called "side oats. ="
In each of these groups typical
variety was adopted as standard and
was sown on every third plot through
out the group, so that every variety
had plot of the typical sort growing
alongside. This was done in order to
overcome as far as possible the errors
arising from inequalities in soil.
Welcome was chosen as the standard
for the first group, Wide-awake for the
second and Seizure for the fourth. The
four mixed sorts soTn in the third
group were compared with Welcome.
The average yield of eight plots of
Welcome was fortv-seven and half
bushels per acre, and the greatest
variation between neighboring plots
was two bushels. which may be safely
assumed as representing the factor of
error due to inequalities of the soil.
Colonel, Clydesdale. Centennial, White
Belgian and White Victoria yielded
practically the same as Welcome.
Improved American yielded seven
bushels more and Barley oats three
bushels more than Welcome, while
American Banner. Badger Queen,
Hargett's White, Hcnderson's Clydes-
dale, Race Horse, White Bonanza and
White Wonder fell from two to seven
bushels below Welcome in yield.
Ten plots of Wideawake averaged at
the rate of nearly forty-nine bushels
pSi tNAS. IlLC SluSlcr,
Currie's Prizc Cluster, Kansas Hybrid
and White Canadian gave about the
same yield as Wideawake. California
White, Scottish Chief, Probsteier.
State of North Dakota and Early Da-
llota yielded three to four bushels more
than Wideawake, and Pringle's Pro-
gress, White Schooner, White Bed
ford, Yankee Prolific, Potato Oats,
White Russian, Welch and Hopetown
fell from five to twelve bushels below |
Wideawake, Welch and Hopetown |
giving the lowest yields.
Five plots of Seizure averaged fifty
six bushels Golden Giant and Giant
Yellow French, which are apparently |
the same variety under different names,
and Egyptian yielded about the same
as Seizure. Black Tartarian. Prince !
Edwards S Island, Dakota Gray. Black |
Prolific and Japan yielded two to five |
bushels more than Seizure, and Will
sons Prolific and Alabama fell three to |
eight bushels below Seizure.
OF the mixed sorts with open panicle,
Monarch and Rust Proof yielded four
to eleven bushels more than Welcome, !
and Black Russian and New Red Rust |
Proof two to nine bushels less. Rust |
Proof was the only one OF these varie-
ties that equaled Seizure in yield.
1t will be seen that the side oats out
yielded the other kinds on the average.
The varieties of the welcome type pro-
duced the heaviest grain. averaging
about thirty-three pounds per bushel
against thirty pounds on the average |
for the other kinds; but all yields were
calculated III bushels of thirty-two
pounds.
The side oats had, as a rule, much |
sitter straw than oats of other types, u |