| Show Two vo New v O Oat t Varieties of Excellent Qualities Two T new oat varieties Keystone and und Patterson promise to tobe be the time best Pennsylvania hania grain growers have yet I had hind If lr yields to date are any indication of their abilities Both varieties were I developed at the time lenns Pennsylvania State college experiment station where the they the have averaged for the time past ten years ears nearly ten bushels per acre more than Sixty Day an arm enI early variety according to C. C I F. F Noll Noil experimental agronomist of ot time tile station These two varieties have mave been heen known l ii h In the time I past st as mis 1 11 t mill and G GS 11 The former has now not been heen named Ke Keystone Key Key- stone stolle for fOl the time state stute where originated and th time the other Is called Patterson In itt honor of or the time late William Patterson superintendent of the college farm for tor torman man many years Year In many other parts of oC the state state these Ues have Iune been gr grown wn In demonstration 1 plots 1108 for sen several ral years with vei very y satisfactory yields Ields Approximately elc eleven en hundred acres of the two to were ver rE grown last bust year So So live ive or fir r six thousand housand bushels of se seed d will iii l be available for distribution Time TIe I I demand was was was' wasl gr greater l' l at r than the tue Sl supply l last spring sprin Noll Noil reports reportS' I The rime two varieties are almost alike in Height in type of oC grain aul in In Ing capacity hut but Keystone is a about out toda two t da days s 's earlier than Patterson Time The grains are yellow ellow and anU rather small Thc They They- have a thin hull and the percentage of ot kernel ern l In time tIle grain Is usually higher r than in the time larger grained d varieties s. s I These oats outs are are best adapted adl to those sections of Pennsylvania where I earl early oats do best says Noll There the they have ha proved much superior to Sixty Day Dar or 01 Khelson the time most commonly com coma early grown variety |
