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Show Tests With Oats THE peculiar quality of oats to put vigor in farm animals, especially in horses, makes It a valuable creip wherever It can be grown successfully. The Purdue agricultural agricul-tural experiment station has Issucel information infor-mation on tho varieties of oats that produce, best' In Indiana, Professor A. T. Wlanekc, who had charge of the tests. In commenting on the varieties tested In co-operative experiments ex-periments during the last five yearn, says that Great Dakota averaged 34. D bushels per acre; Sllvermlne. 34.8; C?:ar of Rus-da, 33.1 : Swedish Select, 32.7. and Karly Champion, 25.2 bushels when all were compared on the same basis. The season of 1J03 was favorable favor-able to the production of oats and the remit re-mit ef experiments on three varieties gave Great Dakota an average of 30.5 bushels; Swedish Seloct. 3S.6. nnd Sllvermlne, 40 bushels. Tho seed was drilled on good land at tho rate of two and a half bushels per aero on the 2d and 3d of April. The formalin treatment was given, which was the means of preventing rust and smut from destroying destroy-ing tho crops. There was a period of eleven days between tho earliest and latest varieties varie-ties in tlino of maturity, although SO i-er cent of them ripened within three davs of each oilier. |