Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-20
rhtn seodlng of Grain.

Less grain per acre IS so"n AH ..t country than by English farmers wl-p a1s whom three to three and one-haii onshels of oats are often deemed nsc- essary, says American CultlVator. Hhs s fish summers are nearly always lnoa0s' and as farm lard is generally rlen II needs this thick seeding to make In9 plants crowd each other from tue Ss1L' and thus prevent too luIuriant grown Here such a seeding on land oI hioo arate 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 or tn7 row that a wider balk was maae 1nan the single width of the drHI paSsine across the rows at each end would GOV er. We were only sowing with the drill two bushels of seed per acre, so we thought, not to leave any baIkS' U drill twice across each end. But In7 second drill width, though it maoe d good appearance, early dried up anu amounted to nothing about the tlA1e the oats should head out.
 If clean, sound, plump oats can De had. q busheI and a half drilled in with some phosphate is better than great CT quantity. There is no crop, not even wheat, to which eommefcia4 nhosDbate is so well adapted as the cat With this lighc seeding ot oats. which should always be drilled early, we gave the oats light narrowing Just after tre young shoots began to come ID. This broke down the ridges be- tween the rows, and entirely covered She leaves that first put forth. But II xaye 9 great stimulus to root growth, and ip a few days two or three or may be more shoots would be put forth by the root for every leaf that was destroyed. The narrowing also Ioosened 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 moro crust will form on the surface through the season. Such grain always GOV CTS the ground at harvest with a bet ter crop than can be got from two to two and one-half bushels of seed sown per acre. but not harroWeI after the grain comes np.
 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 wal. On rich land with fair season we have grown 90 to 100 bushels of oats from 50 light a seeding as one and one-half bushels per acre. Nor need thls be sur prisiag as a single oat grain has been known to produce six to seven stems bearing 8 head we'll filled with oats It is plain that as usually soWn much 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 ir close bins the vitality Of their germ is quickly destroyed by heating. To make sure Of getting sound seed oats they should not be threshed until winter, and never be allowed to 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 thickls than is necessary. More attention te the quality of seed and it's ability to germinale 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 a farmer can use. Yet this is what many farmers are doing with a large part of the seed grain that they put into the soil, whera 1t simply rots and furnishes plant food for the seed that could germinate.