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and by this time in all parts of the South the com crop 

 should have been cut and shocked and the land ready to 

 be prepared with the cutaway to chop up the pea vines 

 that should have been sown in the com at last working. 



Oats need more nitrogen than the wheat 

 Manunal ^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ manured crop of 



Needs of the . , . , , ^ 



Oats Crop ^^^ ^^ which peas have been sown, there 



will be no more need for buying nitrogen 

 than there will be for the wheat crop, and in fact after a 

 manured com crop, oats that are to be followed by peas, 

 and the peas fertiUzed with the appHcation of 400 pounds 

 of acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds of muriate of 

 potash per acre as a preparation for wheat, will not need 

 any fertihzer at all. 



Grown in this way, the oats have produced in the South 

 crops of fifty to seventy-five bushels per acre, and when 

 followed by a fertilized crop of peas they make, with the 

 crop of pea hay, a very valuable money crop to help out 

 the cotton crop and to enable the cotton farmer to get on 

 a cash basis. 



In mentioning the varieties of winter oats we should 

 have said that recently there has been introduced a variety 

 known as the Appier oats which has been found more 

 productive than the old varieties grown. It would be 

 easy, however, for the progressive farmer to improve any 

 variety by simply using the fanning mill effectively to blow 

 out all Hght grain and to use only the heavier oats as seed. 

 The varieties of oats sown in spring are 

 Spring Sown ^^^^ innumerable, and we wiU not at- 

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tempt to detail the series. Every year the 



enterprising seedsmen bring out new sorts that are claimed 



