, 1870-03-28

tSs evening called over 10 aes ny neigh
WI CAN 9ooes, md We ware txIl2 n8 abou
nAksne bank note to borrow the a oney 9
Inat We could buy hundred buahels = thea
o-ea .o' SEED, Ind handed him tho aEan ve tia
oie@ On me result OF my Investigation q Gel
sAn pamFaiets and newspaper adyestiseuA mt
1nos. o' "n'eh were edisoriAlty andossed. On
y! nqse put great faith in, for it czue f, II
" nj know Of Farming" Well, to maL.
sonS ato.s stsort, Sam called IL John, his o,aaa
10y aao aaked him to look over tho te11rea-
john soon came in With tho following:
1Mn l3ISs saa h1ll hu Norway oats{:,. .xt-.w
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Thrrshiug % Dnsheis .'''...'..'-.,........-. so
Hauling TO market aud freight. ......,..,.... <oo
nv 40 hnshAi- ~ ~ ~ =, .eG ". -
ii thnl' father YOU Id best no, ba93os mass
the money.
laened) ssJonN Joxxs''
- think, ssye Sam, that / have seen
these pats before. took a. good look At tho
sarnpb 1t our State fair, and, II am not MIS-
takenst they arc tho came We used to grow IN.
der tha naueu Of Black oats, Poliah oasa,
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groH -pn ono side in ahort ranicIes, and have
besfd Tn The grim; tha stsAw ia large, and
stands up well; do not aheN out easily, md
for many yea,a they produced large crops, but
in the course of time they became mixed with
othor oats, md like al oats sovn here for 4
series of years, they run out. think ve can
afford to ray m extra price fer the pure seed,
for they yield better than any other oat that
hare grown; hut they have 3 thick skin, and
the boards arc no advantage; st lcast, in tue
market the white oats always sell the
best, and rec NO reason to prefer them over
other varieties that hare Of late been imported
from the north Of Europe, Canada, or Mime
sofa. We must get our seed oats, seed pota-
toes and spring wheat, at least once in five
years. from the extreme north part OF these
States"
This took the Observation-Disclosures.
conctit out of me, and vent home iu brown
study, OIL the subject Of
aRAr, nRowx, AND BLACK OATS.
About the year 1911, Mr. Frank Tanner, Of
the town Of Lesden, in Cook County, brought
from one Of tho cent1A counties OF New York
one bushcl Of oats. that lo called Black Tar
tArsan OF Polish oats. A part Of this seed
went into the hands of Gardener Brooks,
hotel-leeper at Brooks Bridge, on the Aux
Pikines 1aSer, about twelve miles from Chicago.
purchased Of Mr. Brooks, the following sea-
8on. twenty-five bushels Of these oats, aud
sowed them on ten Acres of new land that had
produced only one crop Of spring wheat. Tint
was the test crop Of oats that have seen.
As near as can now reeol1ect, paid for the
tlreehiug Of eight hundred bushels At that
time oats we1e sold, not by weight or strict
measure. lut by rounding or heaping measure,
and bushel TINS measured woull weigh 1t
1eaAt fortr-fve pounds. Had the crop been
sold By weight, at ta4isty-two pounds, it would
have reached nearly or quite ono hundred
bushels to the acre. / have sown the same
kind Of seed on similar land, but without at
taining more than half Of the same result
These oats were distributed all through North
cru Illinois: in part BY myself. and in part by
the hotel-keeper Brooks. And now, after noa.ly
thirty years, they have become mixed with
other oats, and "run out" as it il called; in
fact, the same manner ~ other oats, potatoes,
spring wheat, com and barley have done.
1hat they arc identical With the Ramsdeu
Norway oAts hare not doubt. shall sakc
occasion to test this during tho season, for
'these oats arc ret to be had in almost every
township in Northern Illinois.
The average yield OF oats in this State, on
our best farms, does not probably exceed forty
bushels. / am told that Mr. Van Olinda, the
Surprise oat man, had less than twenty-five
bushels per acre last ycar. II this is not cor
rect. I Ahall he pleased to give the exact
figures.
Five years ago, the Surprise oats stood up
well and yielded largely; now some farmers
complain that they lodge badly. Farmers are
glad to sell these oats 1t home for forty to fifty
cents bushel while I see dealers in eomo
cascs hold them at six dollars
While have no objection to pay liberal
price for good seed from the North, especially
Of grain l think highly Of, a. do Of these
Polish oats, get. wish TO vindicate history and
take the conceit out Of sor1e OF tho fuatian
that surrounds it.
Last year everybody got rich buying new po-
tatoes at dollar pound; now they make their
money with seed oats at seven dollars bushel.
money, but thosa who SON this year, with tho
ship to Europe for seed, may be disappointed
would advisc those who purchase. to get
seed grown in Minnesota, il possible; II from
Vermont, sec that it ia free from Cauada
tlist1es.
Thcse oata are now In the hands Of thou
aands Of persons, and can be had Of them At
shout two dollars bushel instead Of middle
men ut FIVE to seven dollars; and Just as good.
for there middlcmeu hare purchased their
stock Of these farmers At about two dollars,
more or 1eas, u buzhci. It is apparently to the
interest Of every person who hAs these oats
for sale to give tho impression thst they arc
new variety. The tame story WAS told Of the
Surprise, which arc now recognized everywhere
as tho English barley oat.
SELLING THE CnoT.
;CERTIFTciTE FOR PCRcHiSE or NOR
| N.iS OATS il