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to the taste ; likewise they may have a faint, smoky, or fusty odor. Such 

 corn seldom weighs more than twenty -two pounds to the bushel. 



KONISBEEQ OATS. 



PETERSBURG OATS. 



Another sample, of a different country, will rattle briskly as it is 

 poured from the bulk into the palm. Such has a clean aspect and 

 almost a metallic luster. It is full or plump, being positively beardless, 

 and exhibits no more husk than is needed to surround the kernel of such 

 grain. When attentively scrutinized, perhaps no specimen of oats will 

 be found to be all of one size; but no very striking inequalities will 

 catch the attention, when the better sort are viewed. These are entirely 

 tasteless ; and do not even suggest the possibility of a scent appertain- 

 ing to them. Corn of this quality is too valuable not to be carefully 

 harvested ; consequently the hardest pressure of the thumb nail leaves 

 no indentation ; while the kernel rather chips than tears asunder, when 

 compressed between the teeth. 



BEST SCOTCH OATS. 



EKOLISH OATS, FROM CANADIAN SEED. 



The absence of beard, however, is not an invariable sign of excel- 

 lence : if the weight per bushel be heavy, this feature should not be too 

 strongly insisted upon. Some good com is distinguished by a greater 

 length of husk than is requisite simply to surround the kernel ; but such 



