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Milling Properties of Oats. [august, 



The percentages of meal were as shown below : — 



Percentage of Meal 

 Obtained. 



Waverley ... 64*00 



Abundance ... ... ... ... ... ... 62*72 



Birlie ... ... ... ... ... ... 61*60 



Sandy ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 61*16 



Potato 60-48 



Goldfinder ... ... ... ... ... ... 60*26 



Blantyre... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6o*oo 



Pioneer ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6o*oo 



Tartar King 56*85 



In the Sixth Annual Report of the Cumberland and West- 

 morland Farm School, a milling test of four varieties of oats 

 is described. The weight of corn ground was in each case 



26 stones. 



Percentage of Yield of Meal 



Meal. per Acre. 



Lb. 



Potato (Hamilton variety) ... ... 63-43 1 ,354 



Waverley 57*96 i>3 6 3 



Goldfinder ... 53*84 1,321- 



Tartar King ... ... ... ... 53*84 I ?4 I 9 



In this test the difference between the productive power of 

 the Hamilton Potato and Tartar King is enormous ; but, 

 in spite of it, the greater crop of Tartar King gives more meal 

 per acre. 



The importance of the oat crop in the North of Scotland, 

 and the reputation of the North Country oats for milling 

 purposes, have made it desirable to test the milling properties 

 of some of the new varieties ; and so, during the last .four 

 years, upwards of eighty milling tests have been made with 

 some dozen varieties by the Aberdeen and North of Scotland 

 College of Agriculture. 



To describe all the experiments is unnecessary, but it may 

 be explained that the quantity of oats milled varied from 

 4 bushels to 4 or 5 qrs. In one set of experiments 168 lb. of 

 each variety were tested at five mills. In all cases the varieties 

 compared in any mill were grown side by side in the same 

 field in the neighbourhood of the mill. , The results at any one 

 mill are complete in themselves, but in regard to varieties they 

 are comparable, for that year, with the results at any other 

 mill, as the grain, no matter where grown and milled, was 



