Show lifE OAT CROP Tests estt of 01 Seeding nul MId Preparation of Seed Bed Se ne neo rho o Oho Ohio Experiment staton station Wooster Ohio his has just ISsued Oats Oata CO or of var r lete Methods ot of seeding Condition ned quality of the seed e bed Sell In different 81 to exterminate smut smut ThIck Ind and thIn seeding D fly J 3 Fron Fremont hickman This 1 Is I a report of l the continuation of experiments wIth oti oats reported three years c ago ago n reply to the I as to which h is 18 the tho bt best var ar arlet let letY of ot oats the tho author sn that there thoro thoroIs Is 10 no best bost variety oley for al all loly and andall al all conditions of Bols souL Some Somo at ar arlete lete tested wo ld do I as well ei on gnel grits el eliy lS na others SOle Semite nr are boler better for rIch lols soils other others for thInner soils als Some are oro not nt at 1 li because or of sneak straw other others because of the color or of the grain still otherS because to too toolate late lato In As s n a rule rulo the medium early varieties ar are bet best varieties were tested whIch ar are divided into Inlo various group mely the Welcom Grup Group usually have hao weak straw and Include ot of the tho varieties Second the Grup Group of fourteen varieties arlete al nil ot of Intro have heads on one sIde LInI are usual termed side o oats ts Time Tho Group Includes twenty twentythree three van or In general form time the Welcome ont oats that the terr berry its longer lunger mor pointed usually lighter and with strange r straw This group Is termed the tho class Time The fourth group rup Includes the mIxed and block black seed td o tl hnIS characteristics similar to the Welcome In the Wel group the tue average yield In ill ons has been from bushels per imor perte te to IU bushels the yIeld that or of tl Lincoln OIs oats In the Ito Seizure or side o oats ts clas class the loesl average wa was and the highest bushels per por acre In the group time the for three years cr ran from iseo SO to OUT tier acre Cl nd and time tho mixed group OUI about pr 15 average A number ot of varieties In cal class bet beat the tho W Welcome The Dro Dreg was n tIme the poorest nn an no av rago crago ot or over 20 bushels Jr et none le lethan less than the Lincoln growing alon along side aide of it H The Tho results show that time tho Lincoln oats oat stands at the hed In of pro l followed by Horl In time the unproved American dy Ch White Belgian and Colonel The Lincoln was most susceptIble to which can be prevented by tIme hot treatment rho Oal oats of the Seizure group wel weighed hed hedmore more on an average than either of the tho theother other classes lul Full tabulated ted serIe series ot of the weights are The he shortest seaSOn for nn any variety wa was days nn and longest If da daIn day In er case cne tIme the arlet ripening sorts were svere among the lowest Most want al an ealy early Ot oat but the tho data given AIen show that when the early fort sort II III mown In preference to n a medium early one I it Is at time the u expense ense of I a lighter yield There her seems to bo be two extremes s the earliest and the tho latest neIther doing as 89 wel well ns as the medium Time Tho larl maturIng sorts are nearly ni all most ot of the later maturing Seizure oat oats are Comparison WIS was made ot of the meth os ode ot of preparing the seed bc bed I It seemed that rolling the land before seeding gave Cae beter better result results than rolling nice j wI n I The same results were had In previous years years While compacting the tue sol roil seemed to be an nd ad advantage vantage o on the gravelly sol soil nt at Colum Columbus bus It s seemed led to be n a disadvantage In Vayne county Uca rains soon oon aler after planting seem to 10 operate more unfavorably ably on land that has been rolled but thIs Is less smirked marked where tIme the rolling precedes the drilling The results show that the more shalo shallow the coverIng the tho greater the yield both ot of oats and straw An experIment was made tn n mIxIng several varieties Of oats together and andus II us blowing out ni all the light seed anther another sample and s sowing the light and hea henry seed separately A further lot WIS was sown as common oats from the thresher It WI was found that while time Che hen hear bat bats did not reproduce heavy heny ont oats tho they Gae gave five 00 bushels more per acre and pounds more of straw Common seed from the thresher gave sae n a larger yield than the tho light oats and maxing varieties WI was n a rather than advantage I It seemed that where the land was plowed sIx or seven seen Inches d deep p the average yield OV five bushels mor than on land that was three or tour four Inches S deep deepS l was found that where hot water treatment I l applied to the see seed there thero was no smut whatever while untreated seed gave n a large percentage e or of smutty heads head In regard to time the amount ot of seed per acre It appeared that wih with the SeIzure class ot of oats tIme the yield In increased creased with the tho amount of sed seed used wih up UI to nino pecks ecks pr per acre while wih with the class the tho heavIest yield was from seven pecks seeding rie ViTo heaviest grain craIn from the eight peck ec ng and the heaviest straw from the tour four seeding |