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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1911 



PEONIES 



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Landscape Gardening 



A course for Home-makers and 

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FIELD CROPS 



A Neglected Opportunity 



MOST of us Pennsylvania fanners raise some 

 oats if only for horse feed. Many of us 

 raise quite a quantity and have a little surplus to 

 sell, which usually goes to the local miller at the 

 carload price. No matter how low that price 

 has held through fall and winter it is always much 

 higher when sowing time comes around in the 

 spring. There are always some neighbors who 

 want to change seed and in many sections there 

 is a demand for some good, vigorous variety of 

 heavy re-cleaned seed. 



Here is a little opportunity that we have taken 

 advantage of, much to our profit, and there is 

 room for a lot more in the same line. At the same 

 time a great deal may be learned about the adap- 

 tability of different varieties to your soil and 

 climate. We try at least two and not over four 

 varieties a season, as that is all we can keep per- 

 fectly distinct without extra labor. The best 

 yielding variety of one season is used to plant the 

 main crop the succeeding year. 



From a small beginning our seed oat business 

 has grown to about five hundred bushels a year. 

 Last season we tried three varieties: Big Four, 

 Sensation and Mammoth Cluster. Big Four 

 was the main crop variety, as it had done the 

 best the preceding year, but this time it was 

 surpassed by Mammoth Cluster. The yield of 

 the former was forty-five bushels per acre, average 

 of all fields, while the latter gave the fine yield 

 of sixty-two and one-half thresher's measure. 

 Sensation was way behind with thirty-six to its 

 credit, and as that makes the third season it has 

 footed the list it will be discarded. We do not 

 make the mistake of considering these tests as 

 final proof of the superiority or inferiority of a 

 variety, but by discarding the two poorest and 

 keeping the two best in any year we are pro- 

 gressing in yield and weight per bushel. 



The farm investigator cannot afford to do the 

 careful work that the experiment stations are 

 doing for us in variety tests. However, their 

 tests are often on a decidedly different soil from 

 that in your locality and climatic conditions are 

 different. In fact unless the soil is very uniform 

 it is not fair to make a direct comparison of the 

 yields of two fields on the same farm. To make a 

 variety test and sell the crop at seed prices makes 

 an abundant financial return for the little extra 

 time and work it entails. 



For our own use we reclean seed by setting the 

 blast of the fanning mill at its strongest, use a 

 coarse screen and blow out all but the very heaviest 

 seed. What blows over is just as good for feed 

 and we know that every kernel of our seed is plump 

 and heavy. There are so many less individual 

 seeds per bushel that it takes more bushels per 

 acre. We find that three bushels of this heavy 

 seed gives the best results. For our little extra 

 labor of harvesting separately and recleaning, we 

 have profited by selling 500 bushels of oats at 

 more than double the miller's price, and have the 

 best seed that we know of for this section. But 

 one variety of buckwheat (Silver Hull) and scarcely 

 any wheat is grown here, so there is little induce- 

 ment to adopt the same plan with either. We 

 have tested many varieties of corn and saved our 

 own seed but not' in marketable quantities. 



It is well worth any one's time to grow a good 

 variety of oats and work up a little local seed 

 market. 



Warren County, Pa. F. E. Bonsteel. 



