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_ SEVERE WINTER SHOWS OATS Atlantic had 11 percent survival and yielded only 13
NEED WINTER-HARDINESS bushels an acre; Dubois, 30 percent survival and 26
  A Severe Winter at L€Xingt0n_]aHuary in particular buslliels an acre; Forkedeer, 12 percent survival and 17 4
_p1,O\/Bd the various varieties Of Winter Oats used by bus e s an acre; and Bronco, 38 percent survival and
  Kentucky farmers need more of the desirable winter- 28 bushels an écrg
g A, hardinéss factor Other experimental lines showed variable results.
v SO Says Verne Fmkuer, Kentucky Agricultural Ex_ Four of the l1st·had 30 percent survival; six averaged
, . Perimem Station Small grains breeder, after a Survey Of 40 percentsurviyal; and six were less than 20 percent V
__ * yields OH tha Lexington Station farm. surv1val.'Y1elds 1n each case were comparable to thc
gv F inkner found the standard varieties winter-killed IOW Suwwal rate'
a badly and that survival in some cases was as low as BEEF L
T- 11 percent. Some of these varieties up to now had RIN`B;J L PERFORMANCE TEST
g. been thought sufliciently winter—hardy. B G DIVIDENDS TO STATE
But the test had some encouraging aspects, he add- The Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Stations
`*e2·¤~ ed. Several experimental lines, kept right along for beef-bull performance test, now in its {ifth year, con-
  just such a rigid—and frigid—test, had good survival. tinues to bring dividends to cattlemen, says \V. P. Car-
J \Vintok, a standard variet , winter-killed badl at ri us, animal husbandry section head.
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»» Lexington; it had only 25 percent survival and yielded "A nationally known Kentucky breeder learned
only 15 bushels an acre. But Ky 56-518, an experi- through one test that one of his top young herd bulls
— · mental line, had 76 percent survival and yielded 51 was not producing calves that gained as rapidly as
F£k»·‘ bushels an acre. Kv 56-527, another line nursed alon desirable. He alread has made a substantial chan re in
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wg _ just for such a test, had 66 percent survival and yielded his breeding program. Another large cattle operation,
i_ 46 bushels per acre. using about 800 commercial cows, tested live or six
i- The four recommended varieties did poorly, Fink- bulls annually and then selected top performers out
ner said, since they are not particularly winter-hardy. (CWIHHUCJ on Paw, 8)
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