SUGGESTIONS ON GROWING OATS 
1. Plant your oats 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 vetch 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. 
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. 
OUR BREEDING PROGRAM INSURES 
CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT 
Our breeding program in small grains is 
planned so as to insure constant improve- 
ment in established varieties and at the 
same time add other highly desired charac- 
ters. Years of painstaking, accurate, ex- 
tensive tests are necessary before a 
superior new type can be bred and offered. 
Utmost care is required in making 
crosses; these are made with definite aims 
in view; thousands of segregates in the 
various generations are selected and these 
put through severe inoculation, cold and 
yield tests and only those with established 
merit are ever offered as new varieties or 
strains. 
Wheat, a crop of rapidly increasing im- 
portance in the South, is being especially 
emphasized in our breeding program. The 
big problem is to breed adapted varieties 
of highest production and milling value 
that will withstand the hazards of cold 
and storms, also smuts, mildews, rust, 
blossom blotch and other diseases. In our 
breeding stocks we have all these factors 
represented and are constantly endeavor- 
ing to add these desirable characteristics 
to our new wheats. 
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