Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-02-28
THE DAT CROP.


OF seed winter oats 60 to 20 cents
per busbel-and spring Oats-32
TO 35 cents-ls too great to justify
the use of the winter variety for
spring planting. We should pre-
fer to use the cheaper spring va
riety now, for while the yield OF
both straw and grain could be
little less than the same sort s,ed-
ell ia autumn that we would never
think of sowing the winter oats in
spnug. Besides. the product OF
the wInter Oat planted in spring is
never fit for fall planting again,
but good Only for spring seeding
thereafter.
The quantity of seed to be used
pcr acre varies with the earliness
or laten of the sc a
son aud the variety employed
The winter Oat tillers out much
more then the spring sorts, and the
earliest sOwings in spring more
than the late. One buShel of good
seed per acre will suffice Tor the
autumn sowing of the winter va.
rietieS, but one buShel and a
peck is usually better quantity
to employ. For spring planting
one one and a half bushels should
be taken for the earlier sOwlngS
and two bushels If the planting is
DELAYED until the last of March or
frSt of April. The late paintings
will not grow SO large, nor will they
filler out, so that there Is room for
a great many more plants to stand
upon an acre of ground.
Except on quite good soil, 1t is
next to time and labor wasted to
SOW oats without some sort of
fertilizer to quicken their growth.
Land. however, that will produce
fire barrels of corn per acre, will
WELD q tair crop OF oats without
fertilizers. Some brand OF phos-
phatc-either plain or super-ap'
pears to produce the best results
with thjs-crop. TIA, re are special
oat fertilizers, but any brand yield
ing q good per cent. Of potash and
lime will do well. High priced
fertilizers are not the best for the
OF. d. Least no. for grain, pro-
duci.g more straw than seed. Old
ash us air an excellent top dressing
for oats.
To our mind, the proper way to
plant is first to plough the ground,
and then SOW the seed, and harrow
or drag them. The oats is a sur
ac rooted plant, and the seed
S Guild not be covered deeply.
Often when ploughing them in the
seed are covered deeply, and they
fail TO terminate. IN inch of soil
upon them Is quite enough. Very
late sowiags, however, if the soil IS
ca,t.acdIy, had better be plOughed
first. and, if the ground is lumpl
or turf, afterwards dragged over,
TO mellow and refine 1t.
An acre or two Of oats near the
noesc, e0r the poultry to forage
upon. would be a great help to
chem, md save corn. For an old
Or uatlritJy orchard, that you wish
10 recuperate and start into new
lie. SOW oats therein now, turn the
pigs ON them i'm June, and after
,6ry get through with the oats,
SOW the same ground to black
pca,e, one aul d half bushels per
acre, and turn on the pigs again IN
SaDte uber. to eat both peas and
fruit. m October pat on 200 to
800 bushels mari to the acre, and
tbe ncxr year look for more fruit
ami core wood.
There are SAIL TO be rust proof
oats. bit the better way Is to have
rust.proof land to grow them on
soil well drained, dr. Y, warm, and
frIaD'e. though, oil c)irse, not too
ilglt or sandy. Land in good heart,
w. D only moderate supply of or
gauic matter. not rank and foul, is
the best. The rust germ is
fungus that originates quite as
often i'm the soil as IN the seed, and
perhaps olteuer. Lime is an ex
cel.eat prove tive of the rust, as
well as of many other diseases Of
the soil, for soils have their dis
eases as We'll as plants.