The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-24
Sowing Spring Oats.

We do not approve the practice of relying
on oats sown in the spring. Those who
do so urge that faC sQwn oats are so often
killed by freezes that they have abandoned
the idea. But we suspect that most of the
oats that are sown in the spring, that is,
after Christmas, m. sown on the fields Of
those farmers who cannot find time for
anything but .ot.on picking in the fall
However, we will rot discuss the compare
tive merits of fall oats and winter oats at
this time for it is too late to mind the
matter this season II is we'll to say that
the later the sowing of oats the richer the
soil should be, or the more highly MANFRED
All quick growing crops, and those planted
so late that they must depart from their
natural haDItS in order to mature in time
must be supplied witt abundance of avail
able, or soiubl" Plant food so that the
roots will not have to forage through every
inch of soil for the scant food that is ready
Tor absorntion. If an engineer is required
to run his locomotSc and train of cars 500
miles IN 300 minutes, he does not want wet
soggy wood, or green gum logs with which
to charge the furnace, but clean, dry quick
burning coal--ani plenty of it. Oats sown
in February will be ready to harvest in
June, earlier or later according to variety
one hundred and thirty days in which all
the processes of terminating. tilering boot
ing, jointing, and headening and ripening
1t stands to reason that if the food supply
is scarce and haIu to gather, the crop will
be to that extent Il poor one.
Therefore, if you intend to SOW oats be
tween now and March LIST, select good land,
or use plenty OF fertilizers, plow the land
a. full nd Ill
good crop of corn and use plenty of the
best seed. If we haa to rely on crop of
oats yet to be sown, we would
l. Select the best seed For this pur-
pose, spring sowing. the Burt ont is per
haps the earliest and best and it is rust
proof eve don't know who has seed, so
don't ask u.s. Next a good strain of Texas
rust-proof. or Geol gia rustproof or Appler.
2. Select naturally rich, Or artihciaily
fertile land. If not convenient to do this.
use not less than 800 pounds, and on IN 10
1000 pounds of cotton seed meal per acre.
mixed with about one. third acid phosphate.
Say:
Acid phosphate with POTASH. =. .25Orb
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8. Having Nj, n brnonnlln1ld well plowed, sow
not less than three bushels of seed per
acre. Land SO poor OF so poorly fortified.
that 1t will not bear three bushels Of seed
oats 10 the acre, sown in February, We're
better planted in something else Medium
land my be sown in the fall but it requires
good land or Il well fortified soil to make
spring oats.
/. Sow about one month before the usual
time for planting the main crop of Indian
corn. We DO not give dates, because The
Constitution goes over so wide a territory.
north aud south, that i general rule-re-
ferring to some local custOm--is better and
more easily applied
5. When the oats get well started in
growing, say in a month or SIX weeks after
sowing, they Will be greatly benefited by
Il top dressing of fifty t. one hundred pounds
of nitrate Of soda, per acre, sown just be-
fore or just after rain.
Thirty bushels Ter acre should be the
minimum yield provided for and expected.
Il. j. kEDDIAG.