The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-13

to the superior wisdom Of the people whom
he hated go thoroughly. Dat meal for the
| young animal and for man is especially nu-
tritious. 1t has less starch than wheat flour
| 1t 10 true; but 1t has more gluten, more SUI
gar, more gum and more fatty matter; and
1t 10 more digestible. No food gives the
young animal so good a growth of bone
and such healthy organization as oatmeal
unless it be Swedish turnips. I do not i'm
agine 1t could enter into the preparation of
fine bread and cake as wheat -four does
but while such food as this may and often
does impair the digestion the common pre-
parations of oatmeal are palatable and
easily digested. The great loss is in the
large amount of woody fibre which is fur
nished by oats, being twenty-one in 100
parts, while that of wheat is hardly more
than ons-tenth of this. On the score of
economy as crop he had nothing to say;
bat as an article Of food he could not speak
too highly of this grain: and he had no
doubt that Mr. Jones was right in his esti-
mate of their value in the feeding of horses
for growth while young and for the road
and draft when matured.
'Mr. President" said John Thomas, s'I
think we all agree as to the valve of oats
Al an article of food, but it seems to me
that 1t is the business of this club to discuss
hrst Of all, the best mode of raising the
crop. fnd that oats differ very much
from wheat, with which we have heard them
compared this evening, in being more liable
to be influenced by soil and climate. Wheat
grows almost everywhere and on almost all
good strong soils. Oats grow best in tho
colder latitudes and on lighter soils. When
the Scotchman ate more oats than wheat,
he did it because he could raise them more
easily. And / have always found that on
new land and in high latitudes the crop is
large and profitable. For myself, l am
sorry to say that my land has lost its fac
ulty of producing good, plump, heavy
crop of oats, unless the season happens to
be very favorable. l have tried every va
riety, Norway oats and Surprise oats and
New Brunswick oats, but they are all, on
new land, an uncertain crop; and have
not yet found out any way to manure my
land 80 as to make the crop sure. In the
western part of the state, where the land is
newer and the country more mountainous,
and the air cooler, enormous crops of oats
are raised by the good cultivation practised
BY the farmers there. think oats require
larger proportion of mineral fertilizers
than most of our grain crops. Heavy man.
uring with heterogeneous barn-yard manures
is hardly the thing for them. Bones, SUI
perphosphates, ashes narrowed in with the
seed will be more likely to produce good
crop, and will give the straw more ability
to stand up, should it grow heavy, as it
must, in order to yield an abundant supply
of grain. / should not select heavy clay
lands for oats. so far as my experience
goes.
The sowing of the seed oats should be
done in early spring-as soon as the frost
is out, and the land sufficiently settled for
the plough. The soil shsuld be thoroughly
pulverized with the harrow, and about ten
cords of well-decomposed barn-yard man
ure should be applied to the surface-or
what is better some bones or ashes COM
bined with less manure. Three bushels of
seed are required to the acre in order to Sc
cure an abundant crop. In yield no grain
varies 30 much as this. Twenty. five bush
els to the acre is in some places considered
fair crop. We are assured, however,
that some new varieties will yield seventy
i've bushels, and the premium crops OF one
section of this state have been reported as
more than hundred. 1t is not advisable
to SOW grass seed with oats, as the each Is
liable to be injured"
To be continued in to-morrows GLOBE.