Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-27
rhIn Seeding of Grain.

Less grain per acre is sown In this country than by English farmers. with whom three to three and one-half bushels of oats are often deemed nee essary, says American Cu1tiyator. Eng fish summers are nearly always moist, and as farm land is generally rich it needs this thick seeding to make the plants crowd each other from the start and thus prevent too luxuriant growth. Here such a 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 a field and found at the end of the row that a wider balk was made than the single width of the drill passing across the rows at each end would coy- CT. We were only sowing with the drill two bushels of seed per acre, so we thought. not to leave any balks, to drill twice across each end. But the second drill width, though it 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 in with some phosphate is better than great CT quantity There is no crop, not even wheat, to which commercial; phosphate is so well adapted as the oat. With this light seeding of oats, which should always be drilled early we gave the oats q light narrowing just after the yoeng shoots began to come ap. This broke down the ridges be- tween the rows. and entirely covered she leaves that first put forth. But it gave a great stimulus to root growth, and in 8 few days two or three or may be more shoots would be put forth by the root for every leaf tha. 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 pleatifulIy that no more crust will form on the surface through the season. Such grain always GOV CTS tho ground at harvest with a bet ter crop than can be got from two to two and one-haf bushels of seed gown per acre. bat not narrowed after the grain comes Hp.
 The grain grown from such light seeding is nearly always plump and faIL and Is worth more for seed than grain grown in he usual way. 0n rich land with a fair season we have grown 99 to 100 bushels of oats from se=light seeding as one and ohe-half bushels per acre S0r need this be sur prisiag as slneie aat grain has been known 10 produce six to seven stems bearing head #eII filled with oa55 Lis plain that AS usually s5Wn much Of the seed aats fail to produce any thing 0ats are often threshed while s61l damp from 9ae field. and if sueA oats afe put fa close bias the vitality of their serm=is quickly destroyed by heating. To make sure of getting sound seed aats thaE should not be theashe8 until winter. and never be allowed 10 heat in even zhe least degree. Every such seed HHs into the ground wili hot only grow, but tt can be made to produce ! hundred fold, though this Is hard to sa6are under ordinary crop conditions. Al eur grains are doubt less for oar climate s0wn more thiek3E than k naaezzlrE- More attention t9 che qealaz af seet and its ability to germIHaaa would pay farmers better. Grain fhat eiaaaT- will not groN. OF that makes such a#eah1e growth that neigh boring gram dwdrfs it, is about the most expensive manure a farmer can use. Yet ta.s is what many farmers are doing with large part of the seed grain tbattbe# put into the soil where it simply f0t5 and furnishes plant food for the seed that could germinate-