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versity of California, perfectly dried grain exposed in shallow layers 
to a saturated atmosphere of 64.4 I’. for eighteen days will increase 
in weight, wheat 25 per cent, barley 28.2 per cent and oats 29.1 per 
cent. According to Professor Brewer, grain weighed February 
1881, and September 1881, under conditions similar to ours, gained 
in weight 8.1 per cent for wheat, 7.2 per cent for oats. 3 
In the water determinations of the American analyses collated by 
Professor Brewer, in the Tenth Census volume on Agriculture, in 
71 analyses the variation was from 7.49 to 13.77 per cent for wheat, 
the average being 11.07 per cent; in 20 samples of oats the varia- 
tion was from 8.91 to 12.86 per cent, the average being 10,56. 
These analyses were, however, probably of samples that had been 
kept under different conditions before analysis than exist in the bin, 
and hence cannot afford data of the same character as that presented 
by our determinations. From our results we may calculate that 
merchantable wheat and oats, in bulk, as sold in the late autumn 
months contain about fourteen per cent and eleven ner cent of water, 
respectively. 
Hyprw Baruey. 
We have had an interesting experience this year with the changes 
that may arise through the use of hybridized seed. In April last, 
Mr. Horsford, a hybridizer and seed-grower of Vermont, sent us one 
head of a cross bred awnless barley, which shelled out twenty- 
eight seed. On May 1, these seed were planted in order as taken 
from the head, single kernels six inches apart in the row, and two 
feet from other rows. Of these, twenty-six seed vegetated and gave 
crop. August 30 the crop was harvested, and was found to consist 
‘of just four distinct kinds of grain. The original head, sent asa 
cross bred for trial, be it understood, answered to the description of 
Hordeum trifurcatuny Ser., “remarkable for its beardless ear; in 
the place of beards the glumes carry on their summit a short tongue 
with three teeth. The leaves are large, the stalks thick, and the 
grain naked.” * * * “It appears to have come originally from 
Nepaul, at least it was first introduced under the name of Nepaul — 
Barley.” Lon Jardinier, 1882. -The seed black. The statistics 
of our crop is as below. 
Seed 1 bore 21 heads: black, not bearded. + 
Seed 2 bore 14 heads: black, bearded. 
Seed 3 bore 16 heads: black, not bearded. 
Seed 4 bore 10 heads: black, not bearded. 
Seed 5 bore 15 heads: white, bearded. 
Seed 6 bore 14 heads: white, not bearded. 
Seed 7 bore 15 heads: black, bearded. 
Seed 8 bore 10 heads: black, bearded. 
- Seed 9 bore 14 heads: black, not bearded. 
{The not bearded means the Hordeum trifurcatum form in every case. 
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