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Since the greater number of forms tested during the above period had 

 been duly eliminated, new and extensive collections were again made in 

 1900 and the succeeding years, but this time greatest attention was given 

 to the common native sorts. Although the new and tried sorts mentioned, 

 had obtained a fairly wide distribution yet by reason of the fact that the 

 most of these came from foreign sorts, many farmers still clung with con- 

 siderable prejudice to the old native varieties. The special attention given 

 these latter varieties at Svalof was therefore inspired very largely by a desire 

 to cater, as far as possible, to these prejudices. The material for this new 

 work was obtained chiefly from samples exhibited at Malmo at the large 

 barley exhibitions held annually at that place from 1899 to 1904, although 

 a number were also obtained from local seed fairs and from interested farmers. 





Photo by L. H. N*. 



FIG. XLI. Dr. Tedin collecting types of barley for photographing. 



These samples naturally came from different places in the country and were 

 all more or less mixed. From the progeny of these different lots together 

 with others worked with later, there were isolated hundreds of different 

 strains from which not less than 34 came into the large comparative trials 

 at Svalof. Of this number there remained in 1910 twenty-one, of which 16 

 came from old native varieties and 5 from the mixed Chevalier. In 1909 one of 

 these sorts (0214) from Chevalier gave the highest yield of grain of all sorts 

 tested, while on the average of the four years 1906-1909, two sorts, 0125 out 

 of a native variety and 0412. out of a common mixed Chevalier, gave the 

 highest yield of all sorts tested during that time with the exception of Gold 

 (0202) which proved somewhat more productive. 



