Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-13
Thin Seeding of nrain.

country than by English farmers, with whom three to three and one-haH bushels of oats are often deemed nee- essary, says American Cultivator. Eng fish summers are nearly always moist, and as farm land is generally rich 1t needs this thick seeding to make the plants crowd each other from the start and thus prevent too luluriant 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 field and found at the end of the row that wider balk was made than the single width of the drill passing across the rows at each end would GOV CT. We were only sowing with the drill two bushels of seed per acre, so we thought, not to leave any baIks, to drill twice across each end. But the second drill width,. though it. made 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, 8 bushel and a half drilled iD with
 some phosphate fs better than 8 great
 CT quantity. There is no crop, not
 even wheat, to which commercial
 phosphate is so well adapted as the
 oat. With this lighc seeding of oats.
 which should always be drilled early,
 we gave the oats a light narrowing just
 after the yonug shoots began to come
 ap. This broke down the ridges be- tween tho rows. and entirely covered She leaves that first put forth. But it Save a great stimulus to root growth
 and ip few days two or three or
 may be more shoots would be put
 forth by the root for every leaf that
 vas 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
 tg and so plendfHlly that DO more crust will form on the surface through the season. Sueh grain always COW CTS the ground at harvest with a bet ter crop than can be got from two# to two and one=half bushels ot 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 tbe usual way. On rich iaHd with q fair season ave have grown 90=to LOO bushels of oats from so light q seeding as one and one=haif. bushels per acre@Nor# need thls be sur- prisiHg as q single oat= grain has been known 10 produce =sfx=to seven stems ] bearing head well filled with oats
 1t is plain that as usually s0Wn much of the seed oats fall to produce any. thing. Oats are often threshed while still damp from the field, and if such oats are put fn close bins tue 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 10 heat in even the least degree. Every such seed put into the ground will not only grow, but it can be made to produce 3 hundred fold. though this Is hard 10 secure under ordinary crop conditions. All our grains are doubt less for our climate sown more thicklg than is necessary. More attention te the quality Of seed and it's ability to germinate 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. where It simply rcts and furnishes plant fa@o Cor the seed that could germinate.
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