. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 716. On the left, spread- ing oats; on the right, sided or mane oats. the largest total yield not giving the largest yield per acre. The total acreage for the United States in 1905 was 28,046,746, with a production of 953,216,197 bushels, worth at farm values$277,047,537. Of the vast quantities of oats produced in the United States nearly all are used for home con- sumption. Oats to the amount of 41,369,415 bushels, worth $12,- 504,564, were exported in 1900, and 41,523 bushels, valued at $18,- 360, were imported. Since that time the
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 716. On the left, spread- ing oats; on the right, sided or mane oats. the largest total yield not giving the largest yield per acre. The total acreage for the United States in 1905 was 28,046,746, with a production of 953,216,197 bushels, worth at farm values$277,047,537. Of the vast quantities of oats produced in the United States nearly all are used for home con- sumption. Oats to the amount of 41,369,415 bushels, worth $12,- 504,564, were exported in 1900, and 41,523 bushels, valued at $18,- 360, were imported. Since that time the ex- ports have constantly decreased and the im- ports increased, so that in 1904 only 1,153,714 bushels, valued at $475,362, were ported, while 170,882 bushels, valued at $57, 802, were imported. [Yearbookof the United States Department of Agriculture, ; This increase is un- doubtedly due, as will be mentioned later, to the increasing popularity of oats as an arti- cle of human diet in the United States. The yields of oats in Canada' for forty years have been as follows : 1871 the yield was 42,489,453 bushels; in 1881 it was 70,493,131 bushels ; in 1891 it was 83,428,- 202 bushels, and in 1901 it had risen to 151,497,407 bushels. The yield was distrib- uted approximately as follows in 1901: On- tario, more than 88,000,000 bushels; Que- bec, 33,500,000; Manitoba, 10,500,000 ; New Brunswick, nearly 5,000,000; Prince Edward Island, 4,500,000; Nova Scotia, 2,300,000 ; Brit- ish Columbia, 1,500,000; The Territories,6,000,000 bushels. Classification. Oats may be divided into two great classes. These are spreading oats, and sided, mane or ban- ner oats. (1) In the spreading oats the branches of the panicle extend in all directions from the rachis. This class comprises the largest number and the most popular of the varieties of oats. (Figs. 716, 717, 718.) (2) In the second class, known as sided or "mane" oats, the branches all hang to one side of the rachis, t
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