The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-05
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WINTER OATS.

Having received SO many inquire
from different parts of the countr!
concerning the value and adaptability
of winter oats for different localitie:
we wrote a gentleman in Virginia. who
we knew had raised them for a uum
Der of years, and asked his opinion il
regard to them. The following is hi,
reply:
In reply to your query of the II inst
In reference TO my experience with
"winter OATS" have TO state that, for
the past five or six years have grown
both the winter and spring oats. and
while the latter have signally failed to
yield a paying crop, not "a failure has
occurred with the fall sown oats. The
experience of Others accords so freely
with my own that it is now general,
conceded that the sowing of spring car
except for hay should be abandoned
in tidewater Virginia. Our winter
oats weigh from ten to twelve pounds
more per measured bushel than the
spring oats, and command from teii
to twenty cents in the market. and th.
yield son similar land is frequent!
twenty per cent greater in both straw
aud grain.
In addition to the above advantages
the winter oats, tillering like wheat.
yields On good land a fair crop witt
only six pecks of seed per acre, and fur
nishes all winter coed pasturage toi
calves and small stock without injury
to she crop. 1t frequently occurs tha
we do not get in all our winter oats il
the fall and SOW the remainder il
February ard March, when we seec
spring oats for bay.
On two occasions this occurred witt
me, and while the yield of the winter
sort is much greater in each instsnc
on the similar land, in one instancs
both sowings were nearly failur.
from drouth. The spring crop sowi
at some time matured ten days ahead
of the winter; a rain came just then
and the winter sort came out astOnisll-
ingly, SO that we estimated the harves'
from six bushels of the winter, to b.
worth more than the fifteen bushels
seeded the spring variety. The Sane
rules apply to seeding winter oats as Z,
wheat The earlier seeding in Sep
tember and October is the best ano
most certain of safety from winter
killing. Some of our farmers al
this date-17th November-have mol
finished getting in their crops. bui
there is risk of loss, if a breeze comes
before the plants are well rooted. Ii
late seeding we consider il best TO cover
deeper, generally with one horse turn
plows Oh corn stubble and then har
row. Thes earlier sowings we break
sod or any land in weeds with two
horses, sow over the rough fallow ano
harrow fine and level. Twelve bushel.
on eight acres were recently seeded IL
this way, on corn stubble that was i,
clover two years since, and with a
single gallon of clover seed next spring,
harrow ia when the winter is over,
will, hope, with the seed already in
the soil, give a good catch. Ia reply
to your query" about fertilizers, just
here may say that TO this crop oats.
clover, orchard grass Tor timothy sowb
with the oat CROP, have never used
any ferril zsr that would compare witt
the following, the effect Of which,
when sown Oh the oats after the clover,
can be seen aCeU all over the field.
Select misty, calm early morning;
NIX equal weights of Guanope guan".
plaster, and bone meal, and spread 30
pounds per acre of the mixture, eith-
with Seymour's lime spregder, which
use, or cast by hand. ------- --
Some years since, a resident of Phil
delphia, and editor OF the most valu
able work on agriculture we possess