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PRINCIPLES OF FARM PRACTICE 



System of farming. Some farmers prefer a rotation in 

 which corn is followed by oats instead of wheat. The small 

 amount of labor required for putting in the crop, and the 

 value of the straw and grain are perhaps the chief reasons 

 for such preference. Oats, when not too thick upon the 

 ground, make a good nurse crop for clover or alfalfa. The 

 following rotations have been suggested by a good authority: 

 For sections especially adapted to corn corn, two years 



Types of oats four varieties. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.) 



oats, one year timothy and clover one to three years; 

 for Southern States corn and cowpeas, one year oats 

 followed by cowpeas harvested for hay one year cotton, 

 one or two years. 



Seed. The weight of grains, rather than the size, should 

 be considered in selecting oats for seed. It has been found 

 that heavy seed gives better production than light seed. 



Seed bed. Oats grow well in a shallow seed bed. Be- 

 cause of this characteristic the ground may be disked instead 



