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Show DOUBLES OATS CROP Farmer Finds That Cross-Brecdlng Brings Good Results. By cross breeding oats, William Schumacher, a farmer near Waverly, La., has developed an oats crop which during the last two years has .imouul- ed to double that of his neighbors. This year his crop averaged eighty bushels to the acre. Nearby crops averaged aver-aged thirty to forty bushels. Last year Schumacher's crop average was 102 bushels. Schumacher began breeding oats nine years ago. The stnrt was made . with three kernels. The onts was cross- 1 bred at that time with pollen from ' Ames. Since thnt time he has enre-I enre-I fTllijvs:.r a 'he best stalks from his I fields. This JC"4- product from his . original thrpe fc -if nats was 2,400 bushels, and In y "f out the best producing hills hV-i id one kernel ,that produced two., alks of oats. The total number or ids the one kernel produced whs k,, 1. The normal nor-mal production from one .alk Is fitly kernels. |