Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-15

grains, becaafsS tlfeyi furnish al ee6nomi-
cal ;substitute for corn in feeding all kinds
of animals: The seed of ther common
VIII tie oat of syore seems 10 have been
destroyed by rust $3.50. --a---
In The black bat is..ths heaviest, and
very valuable grain, thOagh Objectionable
because when ripe enough to cut it is a
perfect touch-me-not; one-f fourth the
crop is lost by SCATTERING out while hand
ling -'p 49,
A. The red oat will repay the planter ON
every kind of land, and it is not subject
to disease. 1t is very prolific, often yield
ing forty bushels per acre on fair land.
The straw is short and tender, and if
cured without being too often wet, is
equal to fodder, pound for pound, as win
ter forage for cattle or mules. | once
threshed $50 dozen bundles of red oats
thai yielded 1896 heaping bushels of beau
tlfulf clean oats. At another time L
threshed thirty dozen, and cleaned
up thirty-six bushels. Its capa-
city of production would not be
reached at one hundred bushels to the
acre. Red oats may be sown at any time
from the first of September to the follow
ing March; those sown first are usually
the heaviest, though this year oats sown
in January were. better than those sown
last fall or this spring. Oats sown on
cotton land at the last blowing of the
crop, or in September after the first pick
ing, and plOwed in with theshallow sweep
burrows, will make an abundant crop; and
if the land was horizontalized for the cot
ton crop, the oats will grow as if drilled
horizontally, and thus protect the land
from washing as above. The cotton stalks
can be hacked down in the winter.
OF the celebrated Norway oats, know
but little. bought bushel last fall at
$500, and sOwed them the third week in |
November on good land, highly MANFRED
with cotton seed. Every oat seemed to
terminate, but in January about one
fourth the s'standn was frozen out. They
stood the dry spring well, grew about |
three feet high, and have peculiarly |
crowded heads nine inches long, with |
thirty to eighty grains to the head. They
were perfectly green when the red oats |
were harvested. They were not cut until |
the 9th of July, and if they are thus late
in maturing will be Objectionable Their
stalk is very large, coarse and strong.
BARLEY
is. also a most valuable crop, but more uu-
certain, perhaps, than any small grain
crop. The best land should be stimulated |
TO grow a fine barley crop. Thin land
win not produce it. Cow-pens are the |
best spots to SOW this grain upOD..a If |
sown in September it may be cut by the
first of January; and, unless the winter
is unusually severe it will be high enough
to cut again in March, and then grow up |
and produce fair crop of seed to be |
harvested when ripe. When used in |
his way 1t should never be grazed, |
but cut with reap hook as soon |
as it. is. high enough to grasp with
the hand and cut below, between the hand |
and the roots or ground. The March cut |
ting may be knee high. The effect of |
green barley upon work animals is most |
astonishing. The planter who sOvs half |
acre of barley on land well prepared and !
thoroughly enriched for each mule, will |
never own poor, diseased, hide-bound |
plow stock. Ripe barley is very hard |
grain, and should never be fed until soaked |
for twenty -four hours. ....... .-
| usually sow one bushel of wheat, |
three pecks of rye, two bushels of oats.
or two bushels of barley to an acre Of |
land. ...... ,.a .-.. ID. WYATT AKIN.