. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Fig. 2.—Side panicle Parts of grain. — The oat grain can be separated into two parts, known as the hull and the kernel. (See Fig. 4.) The whole is called a grain. The hull has no food value, but the kernel is very nutritious. In making oatmeal the hull is first removed and only the kernel is milled. Oats con- stitute a valuable food for young growin
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Fig. 2.—Side panicle Parts of grain. — The oat grain can be separated into two parts, known as the hull and the kernel. (See Fig. 4.) The whole is called a grain. The hull has no food value, but the kernel is very nutritious. In making oatmeal the hull is first removed and only the kernel is milled. Oats con- stitute a valuable food for young growing animals or for horses at hard labor, but they are not used in fattening stock. Food value. —The food value of the oat grain depends on the percentage of hull to kernel. About 2 5 per cent of a good oat is hull, but a poor oat grown in a bad season or on poor soil may have as high as 40 per cent hull, (Determine the percentage of hull in a sample of oats by first weighing a small sample and then removing the hull and weighing again.) Manner of growth. — Oats usually produce more than one head from a single seed. As the farmers say, the oats " stool," that is, branch at the ground and send up several stems from each seed. When sown thickly, not more than two heads are produced from a seed; but if the seeding is thin and the soil rich, as many as five heads may be produced from a single seed. Examine oat plants on various kinds of soil and see how many heads are produced to each seed. Editor's note. — The oat crop in New York State is so important that the teacher should take opportunity to discuss it whenever interest is shown. A few test questions that can be answered from the foregoing text will probably lead the girls and boys to think about the subject. Place the questions on the blackboard and have the older pupils consult farmers in the neighborhood and reference books, before answering the questions. Let one of the pupils place on the blackboard drawi
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