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4. List a number of uses that oats serve. 



5. Name the common varieties of oats. 



6. How is oats smut successfully controlled? 



7. What is the current price of oats on the market? 



8. What is the legal weight per bushel of oats ? 



9. What are the leading oat-producing countries of the 

 world ? 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND HOME PROJECTS 



1. Study of the oat plant. 



(a) Each student should be provided with a specimen of 

 the mature oat plant including stalks, leaves, and panicles. 



(b) Explanation of terms: 



Panicle The complete "head" of oats. 



Eachis The straight stem forming the axis of the 



panicle. 

 S pikelets Branches from the rachis, bearing the 



grains. 

 Glumes, palea, etc. Same as in wheat. 



(c) Make a sketch of an oat head, showing all these parts. 

 Label each part of the drawing. 



(d) Note the following points, and make notations in 

 your notebook: 



X- Number of grains to a spikelet. Number of infer- 

 tile flowers. 



2. Number of glumes to a grain. 



3. How do flowering glumes and outer glumes differ 

 from those in wheat? 



4. Compare wheat and oats in amount of stooling 

 and in amount of leaf surface-. 



2. Problems for oat panicles. 



(a) Each student should have a well filled panicle of oats 

 for this problem. 



