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Show TIMELY HINTS -' ABOUT OATS Analyses Show That They Are Higher in Protein Than Corn and About Equal to Wheat and Isarlev. (By ANTON MALMROSE.) The market grades of oats depend on the color of the grain and its freedom free-dom from mixture and from dirt. The legal weight of a bushel of oats In most of the states is 32 pounds. About 2 pounds of straw are usually usual-ly produced to 1 pound of grain. The proportion of straw may be materially material-ly reduced, however, in some varieties varie-ties and in some seasons, or it may be materially increased. The hull usually usu-ally comprises 30 to 35 per cent, of the grain, though the range- is from little more than 20 per cent, to about' 45 per cent , Analysis show that oats are highei In protein than corn and about equal to wheat and barley. They are higher high-er in ash than any of tte other grains, and considerably higher in fat thar either barley or wheat. On account of the hul'.s, oats contain the highest percentage of crude fiber, an undesir able element. Oat straw contains more protein and more fat than cort stover or the straw of any other small grain. |