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bed so deeply for oats as for wheat, rye, barley or coru. 

 In the eastern states the land is usually plowed. lu 

 the western states many acres are sown on corn land 

 without plowing. The oats are sown broadcast on the 

 unprepared land and covered with a corn cultivator, 

 disc harrow or similar implement. Sometimes the 

 corn-stalk land is cultivated'once before sowing the 

 oats and then cultivated once or twice afterward. 

 Good crops are grown in this way, but very much de- 

 pends upon the nature of the soil and something up- 

 on the season. When the soil is naturally compact 

 plowing is better. Some times oats are sown on the 

 uncultivated surface and the land shallowly plowed. 



Unless the land is plowed oats must, of course, be 

 sown broadcast. On plowed land the practice is 

 divided, but broadcasting is probably the most general, 

 the controlling reason being that they can be some- 

 what more cheaply sown in this way, than if ^the 

 drill is used. 



In the south fall and winter varieties are sown. In 

 some localities in the south oats are sown in Novem- 

 ber, December, January and February during the 

 same season. The bulk of the crop in this country, 

 however, is from spring seeding. Oats should be 

 sown as early in the spring as possible. Experiments 

 indicate that there is a marked decrease both in the 

 yield and the weight per bushel when the seeding is 

 delayed. With corn, the time of planting, within four 

 or five weeks, any season is not especially important. 

 Such a diffarence in the time of sowing oats may 

 make the difference between success and failure. 



The depth of sowing, between one to four inches, 

 does not seem to be important. The same principles 

 apply here as with com and wheat. 



