io6 maink agricultural experiment station. 1916. 



Work in 191 1. 



Seed from the 188 selected plants were grown in garden rows 

 in 191 1. In many instances two or more rows were grown from 

 the same plant. Each row was planted with seed from a single 

 culm of the plant. In this way we were certain that all the 

 plants in a given row were the offspring of a single individual. 

 Where plants are taken from a field plot it is not always possible 

 to be certain that several different culms belong to a single plant. 



Each row was about 6 feet long and contained 25 kernels. 

 The plants were 3 inches apart in the row and the rows in 191 1 

 were alternately one foot and two feet apart. This brought 

 the rows in pairs with a one- foot space between the rows of a 

 pair and a two-foot space between the pairs of rows. This 

 latter space allowed ample access to the individual plants in 

 taking notes, etc. 





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Fig. 17. Facsimile of progeny row record blanks used in the oat 

 breeding work. 



Careful notes were taken with regard to each row. When 

 ripe, the plants of each row were pulled and tied together with 

 the row number tag attached. After the plants were thoroughly 

 dry they were weighed, measured and threshed. In some cases 

 each individual plant was threshed separately. In other cases 

 all the plants of a row were threshed together. In either case 



