kiesselbach.oats.uniformity {agridat} | R Documentation

## Uniformity trial of oats

### Description

Uniformity trial of oats at Nebraska in 1916.

### Usage

    data("kiesselbach.oats.uniformity")

### Format

A data frame with 207 observations on the following 3 variables.

`row`

  row

`col`

  column

`yield`

  yield bu/ac

### Details

Experiment conducted in 1916. Crop was Kerson oats. Each plot covered 1/30th acre. Oats were drilled in plats 66 inches wide by 16 rods long. The drill was 66 inches wide. Plats were separated by a space of 16 inches between outside drill rows.

The source document includes three photographs of the field.

1 acre = 43560 sq feet

1/30 acre = 1452 sq feet = 16 rods * 16.5 ft/rod * 5.5 ft

Field width: 3 plats * 16 rods/plat * 16.5 ft/rod = 792 feet

Field length: 69 plats * 5.5 ft + 68 gaps * 1.33 feet = 469 feet

### Source

Kiesselbach, Theodore A. (1917). Studies Concerning the Elimination of Experimental Error in Comparative Crop Tests. University of Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin No. 13. Pages 51-72.

https://archive.org/details/StudiesConcerningTheEliminationOfExperimentalErrorInComparativeCrop

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/extensionhist/430/

### References

None.

### Examples

    ## Not run:

      data(kiesselbach.oats.uniformity)
      dat <- kiesselbach.oats.uniformity

      range(dat$yield) # 56.7 92.8 match Kiesselbach p 64.

      require(desplot)
      desplot(yield ~ col*row, dat,
              tick=TRUE, flip=TRUE, aspect=792/469, # true aspect
              main="kiesselbach.oats.uniformity")

    ## End(Not run)

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