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foreign seed. For comparison with these analyses, 54 samples, rep- 

 resenting 37 varieties of strictly foreign-grown oats, were analyzed, 

 ine hiding most of the varieties represented in the two classes of 

 introduced oats just mentioned. 



This selection of samples makes it possible to compare domestic 

 and foreign grown oats in general,, as well as samples of the same 

 variety grown in Europe and in this country and different varieties 

 of introduced grain that have been grown in the United States for 

 several years. 



The composition of a typical domestic oat, expressed both as total 

 and digestible nutrients, has been given as follows:" 



TABLE X. Typical United States oats. 

 [Recalculated to dry basis per hundred pounds.] 



The mean of 7J samples of Tinted States and Canadian oats ana- 

 Iv/.rd at the Columbian Kxposition in Chicago in 1893 is given in 



Table XL* 



TABLR XI f'n ited States and Canadian oats, 1893. 

 [Recalculated to dry basis per hundred pounds.] 



The mean ..f _'.'> samples of purely domestic oats studied in this 

 has been fnmd to be as follows: 



TABLE XII. United States oats, 1906. 

 (Per hundred pounds of dry matter.] 



a U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Chemistry, 1898, Bui. 13, Ft. IX, p. 1180. 

 ft U. S. Dept Agr., Bureau of Chemistry, 1895, Bui. 45, p. 29. 



