. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . e northern tier of states and theRocky Mountain region, white oats of rather late-ma-turing, large-grained varieties are usually most of these varieties belonging to the spreading typeare: Clydesdale, Big Four, Swedish Select and Lincoln ; ofthe horse-mane type. White Russian and Tartarian arewell known. In the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio River regions,extending as far south as Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Ten-nessee and Texas, and as far east as Ohio, small-grained,early, yellow varieties have proved the best. The Khers
. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . e northern tier of states and theRocky Mountain region, white oats of rather late-ma-turing, large-grained varieties are usually most of these varieties belonging to the spreading typeare: Clydesdale, Big Four, Swedish Select and Lincoln ; ofthe horse-mane type. White Russian and Tartarian arewell known. In the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio River regions,extending as far south as Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Ten-nessee and Texas, and as far east as Ohio, small-grained,early, yellow varieties have proved the best. The Kherson,Silvermine, Big Four and Sixty Day are examples of thesevarieties. Successful fall seeding of oats is possible only in thesouthern states. For southern fall seeding. Winter Turfand Red Rustproof are the varieties most used. For spring 84 AGRICULTURE seeding in this region the Burt and Red Rustproof are sat-isfactory. Topics for Investigation 1. How many acres in your fathers farm ? How manyacres are cultivated this year? How many acres in grass. A B D (A) Sixty Day. grain inediiuu-sized, slender, yellow; (B) RedRustproof, grain large, plump, reddish-brown; (C) NorthFinnish Black, grain medium-sized, plump, black; (D) SwedishSelect, grains white, large and plump. land and pasture? How many acres in garden, orchard,lawn and barnyard? 2. How many acres are devoted (1) to corn; (2) towheat; (3) to oats; (4) to other farm crops? What per-centage is the acreage of each crop to all the land culti-vated? To the whole farm? 3. Find how many acres altogether in the farms rep-resented by the pupils in the school. Then answer eachof the four questions asked in number 2 for all thesefarms summed together. How do the percentages for each OATS 85 crop raised on your fathers farm cortipare with the per-centages for the entire school district? 4. What was the yield of oats per acre on your fathersfarm this year? What is the yield of corn? Learn the rr-n-r-rr
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