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Milling Properties of Oats. [august, 



BirLie, with the least, produces practically the same proportion 

 of meal as Thousand Dollar, which has the most husk. In the 

 Ross-shire tests Storm King, with 5 per cent, more husk than 

 Waverley and Newmarket, produces as much meal. These 

 inconsistencies occur repeatedly — so often that one must 

 believe that the laboratory estimate is but a poor indication 

 of the milling power. 



Do the Heaviest Oats give the Largest Quantities of Meal ? — 

 Oats of heavy natural weight are, of course, more valuable 

 than lighter oats, as they will produce more meal per quarter ; 

 but will they give more meal per ton than grain a few lbs. 

 lighter per bushel ? The trials under consideration were not 

 planned to deal with this question, but so far as they go they 

 appear to show that weight per bushel is not an accurate guide 

 to the amount of meal that will be obtained from a given 

 weight of grain. To ascertain the effect of weight per bushel 

 with accuracy it would be necessary to test a number of 

 samples of the same variety, grown on the same farm from one 

 sample of seed, and differing only in weight per bushel. This 

 was not feasible, but it appears from the figures that varieties 

 of the same type, grown on the same soil and of similar weight 

 per bushel tend to approximate in meal production. 



Results from the same Type, Weight per Bushel, Soil and Mill. 



Mill. 



Variety. 



Weight per 

 Bushel. 

 Lb. 





Meal. 

 Per cent. 



Denwell 



... Newmarket ... 



47 



59"5 





Thousand Dollar 



47? 



59; 5 



Cairnbulg ' ... 



... Siberian 



45 



6i-6 





Wide Awake 



44i 



6l *2 



Tipperty 



... Banner 



43f ... 



5 8'4 





Wide Awake 



44 



58-4 



Echt ... 



... Newmarket ... 



43i ... 



60 * I 





Waverley 



43i 



60 * I 



Results from different Types, but from the same Weight per Bushel, Soil and Mil 

 Mill. Variety. 



Cairnbulg 



Tipperty 



Echt 



Siberian 

 Potato 

 Waverley 

 Scotch Birlie 

 Newmarket . 

 Potato 



Weight per 

 Bushel. 

 Lb. 

 45 

 ■ 45 

 44? 

 44i 

 43i 

 43 



Meal. 



Per cent. 



61 - 6 



60 -7 



61 '2 



62- 5 

 60 • 1 

 56-0 



