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its ultimate distribution. Experience, however, soon showed 

 this fear to be unfounded, since the ehmination of all further 

 selection soon overcomes the incipient deficiency. In reaUty, 



Figs. 22-26. Five different types of new varieties of oats, produced at Svalof. 



Fig. 22. Flag-oats. 



the multiplication of a separate culture may go on as fast 

 or even faster, than that of an old-fashioned methodical 

 selection. 



In the fall of 1893, these new principles could be consid- 



