CULTURE OF OATS 



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Broadcast seeder attached to the end gate 

 cf farm wagon and driven by rear wheel. 

 Drawing en the right shows hopper with 

 grass seed attachment. 



dt or just after seeding, or soil is of a character to suiter from 

 dr}- weather, drilling would be preferred. If drilling is accom- 

 panied by better preparation of seed bed, it is to be preferred. 

 Broadcasting requires more seed, perhaps a half bushel to the 

 acre more, much depending upon 

 the preparation of the seed bed. 

 The same seeding machiner}* de- 

 scribed for sowing wheat may I 

 used for oats. (135) The broad- 

 cast seeder attached to the end 

 gate of a wagon is widely used 

 where oats follow maize without 

 plowing. Kansas Station found 

 during seven years an average of 

 twent}--six bushels by broadcasting and thirty bushels by drill- 

 ing. Slightly better results have been obtained by using the 

 shoe drill with press wheels than by the shoe drill without press 

 wheel or by hoe drill.^ 



413. Method of Fall Sowing. — The Georgia Station recom- 

 mends the following method to prevent winter killing : 



" On the station farm we have found, even when the drills were laid two feet or 

 one and a half feet apart, using a common scooter plow, or. better, a single-row fer- 

 tilizer and seed distributer — that 

 oats so sown alwaj^s produce a 

 larger yield than when sown 

 broadcast and harrowed in. But 

 a more important discover}- is 

 the fact that when the seed are 

 sown in open furrows and barely 

 covered, leaNing the furrows open 

 or unfilled, the oat plants are 

 very much less liable to be killed 

 by a severe freeze. The idea was 

 conceived several years ago, and 

 annually since we have sown the 

 larger portion of the fall-sown area in drills eighteen to twentj'-four inches 

 apart, latterly using a Gantt fertilizer distributer. This sows but one row at a 



Grain and fertilizer drill recomimended by Georgia Sta- 

 tion for fall seeding cf oats. The ccvering attach- 

 ments, a, are removed when sowing oats. 



1 Kan. BuL 74. p. 20a 



