34 TEN YEABs' EXPEKIENCE WITH THE SWEDISH SELECT OAT. 



The percentage of meat in the kernel was determined by hulling 

 100 kernels taken at random from a fair sample, weighing the hulls 

 and inside portions separately, and then calculating the percentage 

 of the latter weight to the combined weight. An average of three 

 such determinations for each sample gave the result that is set down 

 for each variety each year. 



The largest amount of data was obtained from Wisconsin material. 

 Of the varieties examined from that State, the Swedish Select stands 

 much the highest in weight per bushel in an average of samples from 

 3 years' crops, the average weight for this oat being 32.67 pounds. 

 Only one other variety, the Kherson, reached even 31 pounds. In 

 weight of 1,000 kernels in grams the Swedish Select also exceeds any 

 of the others. This quality, however, is not important. In percent- 

 age of meat in the kernel this variety falls considerably below those 

 having the highest percentages, ranking only fifth in this respect. 

 The Kherson and the Sixty-Day are considerably higher, while the 

 White Bedford and the White Tartar are also somewhat higher. 



Average determinations of Montana samples out of two years' 

 crops show the Swedish Select to be inferior in weight per bushel to 

 four others in a comparison with five varieties. In weight of 1,000 

 kernels it stands second in rank, and, what is more important, is 

 second also in percentage of meat in the kernel. 



In the case of the North Dakota varieties there are averages of 

 2 years' samples in only two instances, those of the Sixty-Day and 

 the Swedish Select, the latter exceeding the former in both weight 

 per bushel and weight of 1,000 kernels, but falling considerably below 

 it in percentage of meat in the kernel. For the 1907 crop only, the 

 Swedish Select is exceeded by the Seventyfive-Day oat in both 

 weight per bushel and percentage of meat, but exceeds the latter in 

 weight of 1,000 kernels, and exceeds all the three remaining varieties 

 in all these qualities. 



Kansas samples were examined from only one year's crop, that of 

 1907. Compared with nine other kinds, the Swedish Select ranks 

 fifth in percentage of meat, falling considerably below the Sixty-Day 

 in this quality, but exceeds all other varieties in both weight per 

 bushel and weight of 1,000 kernels. 



A series of tests similar to the above was made by Shepperd and 

 Churchill with a considerable number of varieties at the North 

 Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, samples being taken from 

 the crops of 1904, 1905, and 1906. a 



The results of these tests show that the Swedish Select stands con- 

 siderably above the average of oat varieties in percentage of meat in 



" Bulletin 75, North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, February, 1907, pp. 

 317-322. 

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