Use Certified Oat Seed, Professor Urges
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of the right variety for a spe- mg to Dr Guy W McKee, ,pro
cific farm can mean 20 or moie fessor of agronomy at Pennsyl
bushels per acre than possible \ania State University
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Twenty-four extia bushels was
the yield difference between
statewide trials of certified oats
and all oats grown in Pennsyl
vania duung a 15-year period,.
Dr McKee says. The average
yield of all varieties in the
demonstration trials was 65 5
bushels per acie over the 15
years.
In contrast, the average state
wide yield of all oats was only
415 bushels per acre There
were several years of below
normal rainfall in the 15-year
penod
As secretary of the Experi
ment Station Seed Committee in
the College of Agriculture, Di
McKee works closely with seed
impiovement programs He says
high seed quality is indicated by
germination ability and freedom
fiom weed seeds
Ceitified seed, or seed of
equal quality bearing the brand
tags of reliable seedsmen, is the
best assurance of quality The
extra cost is repaid many times
over in increased yield, he said
Penn State recommends six
varieties of spring oats for Penn
sylvania farms They are Garry,
Pennfield, Orbit, Russell, Clint
ford, and Jaycee For farmers
v'antmg an early maturing vari
ety with stiff straw, Clmtford
replaces Clinton 59 and the sev
eial Clintland selections Russell
oats, while high yielding, tends
to have more stalk breakage than
the other recommended varie
ties.
In the 15-year period of analy
sis, the average yields per acre
were; Russell, 75 8; Pennfield,
73.7, Orbit, 73 1; Garry, 69.2; and
Chnton-Clmtland types, 614.
Pennfield, Orbit, and Russell, re
leased m recent years, were in
cluded only during the latter
years of the test. Jaycee, newly
recommended, was not m the
tuals- but produces high yields
Elmer € Pifer, former exten
sion agronomist now retired,
conducted the 15-year-tnals
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