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Show ' best yields. Tho yield was not j materially affected by the length, ' plumpness, or by the weight of the ! berry or the weight per bushel. ! Those varieties with long, slender ; berries and light weight per bushel j contained appreciably the largest per j cent kernel. In other words, those i varieties which would have sold best j on tho market, or, what is less im- portant would have taken the premium at fairs, did not yield better than the other varieties and did not i have so high a food value. Field K.XMriiiiont With Oat, 1800. The Iliinois Experiment Station bulletin says: Tho largest yield of grain was produced from sowing two and one-half bushels of seed. A fairly compact seed-bed gafo the best results. The timo of sowing has had in theso tests a moro market! influence on the yiold than any other condition. The oarlier sowings, with ono exception, the earliest have uniformly given the 1 i I |