Varietal resistance of oats to Puccinia Coronifera

Abstract

Oats grow best in a cool, rather moist climate, and are most largely produced in the North Temperate Zone. Among the leading countries in the production of this crop are the United States, European Russia, Germany, France, Canada, Austria-Hungary, and the United Kingdom. According to the Bureau of Statistics of the United States department of Agriculture the world's production of oats is about four billion bushels annually, or about the same as that of corn or wheat. In the five year period from 1906 to 1910 the average annual production of oats in the United States was 932 million bushels or a little less than one-fourth of the world's production European Russia averaged 865 million bushels in the same period, Germany 583 million bushels, France 299 million bushels, and Canada 295 million bushels.