Suggestions on Growing Oats... 
1. Plant your cats or wheat on land that you 
know, from past experience, to be good grain land 
and free of all noxious weeds, foreign seed or 
volunteer grain. 
2. Check fields carefully and see that none of 
these plants are present on ditchbanks, hedge- 
rows or roadways adjacent to field. If they are, 
you can rest assured that seed have been scat- 
tered by birds, wind, rains or other means and 
will show up in your field the following spring. 
3. Examine carefully and have tested all 
legume seed used and be certain that they carry 
no small grain or other foreign seed. 
4. Hard seed in veich often germinate the 
second year and furnish a troublesome source 
of mixture. Small grain growers must recognize 
this fact and plan their cropping system so as 
to avoid. 

Darnell or ‘‘Cheat’’—-a noxious weed that must 
be constantly guarded against. 
5. Never plant on land planted to any small 
grains the previous year. 
6. Never use rough stable manure if stock 
have grazed or been fed with oats. 
7. In all sections where small grains are grown, 
seed will be scattered by birds or other means, to 
fields in that vicinity, so in all fields will be 
found some volunteer plants coming from such 
sources. We urge all growers to carefully check 
their fields and pull out all off-type or foreign 
plants before having fields inspected for certi- 
fication. 
8. Leave sufficient distance between varieties 
or different grains to allow harvesting without 
mixing. 
9. Carefully clean out thresher or combine 
before harvesting—most mixing occurs through 
neglect of this. 
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Heads from typical volunteer oat—segregates of chance 
crosses on Red Rust Proof types. 
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