Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-23
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 Waom three to three and oua-haIe Dosneis or oats are often deemed nee essary, says American Cultivator. Eng- ilsh summers are nearly always moist. and as farm land is generally rich it Aeeds this thick seeding to make the plants crowd each other from the start and thus prevent too luxufiant growth. Here such seeding on land Of mod crate fertility might not produce any thing but the straw of grain without any heads. We once drilled some oats in field and found at the end of tha row that wider balk was made than the single width of the drIli passing across the rows at each end would GOV or. We were only sowing with the drill two bushels of seed per acre. aa we thought, not to leave any baIks. to drill twice across each end. But the second drill width, though 1t made A good appearance, early dried up and amounted to nothing about the time the oats should head out.
 If clean, sound. plump oats can be had, bushel and half drilled fn with some phosphate is better than a great CT quantity. There is no crop. not. even wheat. to which commercial phosphate Is so we'll adapted as the. oat. With this light seeding of oats. which should always be drilled early. we gave the oats light narrowing just after the young shoots began to come HD. This broke down the ridges be tween the rows, aud entirely covered the leaves that first put forth. But it gave great stimulus to root growth, and in few days two or three or may be more shoots would bs put forth by the root for every leaf that was destroyed. The narrowing also loosened the surface soil so that any crust formed by rains will be broken The new leaves will start up so quick ly and so plentifully that no more crust will form on the surface through the season. Such grain always cov- CTS the ground at harvest with B bet ter crop than can be got from two to two and one-half bushels Of seed sown per acre. but not narrowed after the grain comes up.
 The grain grown from such light seeding is nearly always plump and full, and is worth more for seed than. grain grown in the usual way. On rich land with a fair season we hava grown 90 to 100 bushels of oats from so light seeding as one and one-haif bushels per acre Nor need this be sur prising as single oat grain has been known to produce six to seven stems, bearing & head well filled with oata- It is plain that as usually sown muck of the seed oats fail to produce any thing Oats are often threshed while still damp from the field, and If such oats are put in close hina the vitality of their germ Is quickly destroyed by heating. To make sure of getting sound seed oats they should not bs threshed until winter, and never be allowed tof heat in even the least degree. Every such seed put into the ground will not only grow, but It can be made to produce hundred fold, though this Is hard to secure under ordinary crop conditions. All our grains are doubt less for our climate sown more thickly than is necessary. More attention o0 the quality of seed and it's ability tn germlnate would pay farmers better. Grain that either will not grow, or that makes such feeble growth that neigh boring grain dwarfs it, is about the most expensive manure farmer can use. Yet this is what many farmers are doing with large part of the seed grain that they put into the soil, whera it simply rots and furnishes plant food for the seed that could germinate- WOMAN'S STATUS IN LOUISIANA A Curious Anomaly That Has Juss
 Come to Light.
 Ethel c. Avery calls attention to ths present unique status of LouisiaDs women. says the Woman's Tribune, ss follows: "A curious anomaly has Just come to light in Louisiana. The late constitutional convention gave tax- paying women the right to vote upSH all questions submitted to taxpayers. It added clause. unique in the suf- frage laws of the county, that any woman who did not wish to go to the polls herself might give proxy to some one else to cast her ~ste for her. This was done out of chivalrous regard for the women. who. It was thought might shrink from contact with tho polls. New Orleans is preparing to hold its first election under the new law. to decide upon tax levy for