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a gentleman in Cumberland, England, discovered a stalk of 

 oats coming up among some potatoes, and, carefully saving 

 the seed, he originated probably the best variety of oats of 

 that day, and it still maintains its popularity in the North 

 as the Potato oat. Some gentleman visiting the deserted 

 camp of the Choctaws, in Georgia, after their removal, 

 found at their old stables, a few stalks of yellow or red oats. 

 He gathered and sowed them, and gave it the name of "In- 

 dian camp oat. This oat is now in the Southern States, and 

 in portions of Tennessee the most popular variety grown, 

 and will make from seventy-five to one hundred bushels per 

 acre. It has such a coarse, strong straw that it will grow 

 without any danger of lodging on the richest bottom lands. 

 The husk is a reddish yellow, very much like the husk of 

 the "golden chaff" wheat. This oat has not come into such 

 general cultivation as it deserves, and it will, ultimately no 

 doubt, attain a great popularity. Many farmers in the 

 Eastern part of Williamson county, sow it regularly, hav- 

 ing been introduced by a Mr. P. P. McArthur, a Georgia 

 immigrant. The Potato oat above referred to is very pop- 

 ular in England where it originated, and is almost the only 

 variety grown in Scotland. It is large, plump, rather thick 

 skinned, white grains, double and treble, long straw, and in 

 England commands a higher price than any other. The 

 "Hopetown" is another English variety, originating from 

 one stalk growing among the potato oats in 1824. It was 

 distributed by the Agricultural Bureau from Washington, 

 in 1873. 



The yellow oat was also distributed at the same time, and 

 is giving very good satisfaction. The two last are both im- 

 ported from Scotland. 



But the most popular oat of Tennessee is the Black oat. 

 There are, like the White oat, several varieties of this kind. 

 The Prussian, Poland and Spanish, are the best known. 



The Egyptian oat, about twenty-five or thirty years ago, 

 attained a great popularity, both from the height of the 



