TARTAR OATS. 



The IDEAL OAT for the AMERICAN FARMER. 



VBRY EARLY. 



VIGOROUS CONSTITUTIOJK. 



IMMEJWSB YIBLOER. 



/■^HIS grand oat, which we catalogue for the first time, 

 /l was grown and selected by that eminent agricul- 

 ^^ turist, Mr. I. S. Long of Lebanon County, Pa., from 

 a sample of White Tartarian which we imported. 

 It is suitable for all soils, of robust and vigorous con- 

 stitution, is remarkably early and an immense cropper, 

 the straw is long and stout, and, as a consequence, stands 

 up well and does not readily lodge or twist. The heads 

 are very long, measuring from 8 to 10'^ inches, and the 

 kernels are of immense size, thick, plump and heavy. It 

 has already proven its superiority, and is undoubtedly 

 the heaviest cropping domestic white oat ever offered. 

 Planted alongside some of the older varieties in a field of 

 40 acres on Mr. Long's farm, it yielded more than 

 double the number of bushels per acre of any of the 

 other sorts. 



Its extreme earliness, great length and strength of 

 straw, thick, plump grains and the heavy yields it is 

 capable of producing- gives Long's White Tartar all the 

 necessary qualifications which go to make an ideal oat. 



^EOMTSS-AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 



FEBRUARY 14th, 1903. 



= PROMISING NEW OATS.= 



Recently while on the farm of I. S. Long in Lebanon County, Pa., 

 the editor saw one of the largest and most promising varieties of oats 

 that has been introduced into this country. It was imported in 1901 

 for Mr. Long- and he grew about 40 acres the past season. When 

 growing, it attracted a great deal of attention in his neighborhood, 

 and farmers from all over the community came to see the field. It 

 not only has long, strong and vigorous straw, but stands erect and 

 lodged less this season than any other variety in the neighborhood. 

 The yield was quite uniform and ran about 125 bushels per acre in the 

 best portions of the field. 



The kernels are long, thick and perfect. Several heads picked 

 without special selection from a bunch brought to the office of Amer- 

 ican Agriculturist measured 8^ to 10^ inches long. When threshed, 

 it came out of the spout at the rate of two bags per minute, or an 

 equivalent of nearly five bushels, at the ordinary run of the thresher. 



This new variety planted in the same field with some of the older 

 kinds, not only retained its weight, but produced more than double in 

 quantity of any others. He seeded about three bushels per acre. It 

 was sown broadcast, but he is not an advocate of sowing oats broad- 

 cast and thinks he would have had better success if he had drilled 

 them. The illustration reproduced herewith shows an average 

 bunch of these oats, which gives a fairly good idea not only of the 

 size of the straw, but of the immense heads. Two of the straws in 

 our office were 4 feet long, and some of those in the sheaf standing 

 beside Mr. Long exceeded this length. 



Price, 75g. peck, $2.00 bu. (32 lbs.); 10-bu. lots, 81.85 bu.; 50-bu. lots, $1.75 bu.; 100-bu. lots, $1.65 bu. 



We shall be pleased to make Special Prices ]p^s''stbief to buyers of large quantities of Grain or Grass Seed. 



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