GENERAL NEWS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 727, 2 May 1922, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

• A NEW OAT. What appears, to be a new variety of oat is being tested in- Western Can a. 1 a with most enccui aging results. as it gives many evidences of extreme drought resistance. In 1915 Mr Alby Kite discovered on his farm at Cluny, Souther.in Alberta, a single oat root of some sixteen stools, g’owing on land he was preparing for e garden. The grains we e c- a the ”.?(I a~ d so w n Ihe. foi l o\ vi n g yesV” From this and subsequent tests Mr Kits has found the Mammoth oat, as he edict it, a very high Welder, with r, st ong st ’aw and plump I<* no!, and an excellent drought lesister. Last yea”, which, proved a drv one, the area planed on sumum” faTow gave a return of' 100 bushels to the acre. In comparison with Banner a- well-known standard va - iofv, new * rival has shown up well. Its peculiar drought rosw.irg runMties arc accounted for by the fact that Mammoth has a mam tap '■■oot some six c eight inches long, which reaches well down ino the soil, and is able to withstand extremely dry conditions, which wcu’d be fatal to other strains. Mammoth "opens in Canada in about the. same period as Banner, i.c, on an average 110 days. It has a considerably heavier head, however, from 50 to GO panicles to a stem aro considered n good yield of Banner, but it is claimed that it is nothing unusua. to find between 90 and 120 grains in a s im.de head on the new variety

The plant has a long, (thick straw, which enables it. to support the her.w head and p event lodging. The kernel is short but very p-ump, somewhat .cscrr.b’ving a wheat grain. Samples tested, have weighed as high as 461 b to the, bushel or 141 b over the standard.