Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-27

| OF experiments with oats reported three
| years ago. In reply to the often-asked
question as to which In the best var
icty OF oats, the autbsr sayH that there
n no best variety for all coils and
all conditions OF those soils. Some var
icties tested would do as well ON grav-
ely soils MS others. Some are better
for rich soils, others for thinner soils.
Some are not wanted ut all because OF
weak straw, others because OF the color
OF the grain. and stiil others because too
late In maturing. An a rule the medium
early varieties are best.
sixty.Hix varieties were tested. which
are divided into various group. namely.
the Welcome Group. which usually have
weak straw. and include onc-third OF
the sixty-slx varieties. Second. the
Seizure Group. OF fourteen varieties,
all OF which have heads on one side and
are usually termed side oats. The
third group Includes twenty-threc var
leties, In general form resembling the
Welcome oats, except that the berry
" longer, more pointed, usually lighter
and with stronger straw. This group
" termed the widcawakc class. The
fourth group Includes the mixed ana
black seed oats, having characteristics
similar TO the Welcome. In the We'll
come group the average yield In three
years has been from i5.3O bushels per
acre to 6i.i2 bushels. the last Yield that
Of the Lincoln oats. In the Seizure or
side oats class the lowest average was
419G and tho highest 6I.iS bushels per
aero. In the Wideawake group the
ngerage for three years ran from
3S.65 to 60bi per acre. and the mixed
group about % average. A number
Of varieties In the Welcome
CLASP beat the Welcome. The Drog-
heda was the poorest. making an av-
cragc OF over 20 bushels per acre less
ha 4 al IL az
IT, The results show that the Lincoln
oats stands at the head Ia point OF pro-
ductivcncss followed by close compct-
ltors In the Improved American, ely
desdalc. White Belgian and Colonel
The Lincoln was most susceptible to
smut. which can be prevented by the
hot water treatment.
The oats OF the Seizure group weighed
more on an average than either OF the
other classes Fun tabulatcd series OF
the weights are given. The shortest
season for any variety was cighty-Onc
days. and the longest iO3 day.
In every case the earliest rlpening sorts
were among the iowcht ylelders. Most
people want AZ early oat. but the data
given show thar when the early sort
IN grown In preference to a medium
early one II n at the expense OF
lighter yield. There seems to he two
extremes the earliest and the latest.
The early maturing sorts nre nearly
all weak-strawed. while most OF the
later maturing Seizure oats are
strong -strawcd
Comparison was made Of the meth
DDS OF preparing the seed bed. II
seemed that rolling the land before
seeding gave slightly better results than
rolling alter sowing. The same results
were had In previous years. While
compnctlng the soil seemed to be nm ad-
vantage on the gravciiy soil at Column
bus. II seemed to be a disadvantage In
Wayne county. Heavy rains soor. after
planting seem to operate more unfavor-
ably on land that has been rolled; but
this Is less marked where the rolling
precedes the drilling. The results show
that the more shallow the covering the
greater the yield. both OF oats and
straw.
An experiment was made In mixing
several varieties OF oats together. and
In blowing out all the light seed from
another sample and sowing the Hight
and heavy seed separately. a further
lot was sown - common oats right
from the thresher. II was found that
while the heavy oats did not reproduce
heavy oats they gave Ave bushels
more per acre and 100 pounds more OF
straw. Common seed from the thrcsher
gave larger yield than the light oats.
and making varieties was u detrlmcnt
rather than advantage. II seemed that
where the land was plowcd six or
seven inches deep the average Yield
was Ave bushels more than on land
that was dlsecd three or four Inches
deep.
II was found that where hot water
treatment was applied to the seed there
was no smut whatever. while untreated
seed gave n large percentage OF smutty
heads. In regard to the amount OF
seed per acre. II appeared thnt with
the Seizure class OF oats the yield in
creased with the amount OF seed used
up to ninc .ecks per acre. while with
the wideawake class the heaviest
Yield was from seven pccks seeding.
the heaviest grain from the eight peck
seeding and the heaviest straw from
the four peck seeding.