The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
AppI.ER OATS. ETC.

James j. H.. ELM City. N. CT nave
read a good deal in The Constitution
about the Appler oat. W nat Is mere mere
about the Appler oat that makes them
better than ANY other good oat? About
sixteen or eighteen years ago | saw the
advertisement of 4 Georgia farmer say
ing ne had oat which he had been
planting twelve years, ana Il h%lu never
Deen winter killed.
/ sent and bought ore bushel They
lad a large grain with BEARD, We're
very yellow, did not grow tail, and dld
not have a large head, but were really
q very good oAt There were with these
oats a very few that were nearly black
grew a little taller than the others.
heads little longer and had more grains
in number, but the grains were not so
large and had no beard Nearly all these
oats now are of the latter kind. l have
sown them In fall and In spring. lind
them equally adapted to either winter
or spring sowing. l don't think so much
as one stalk or bunch has ever been
winter killed When | SOW peas alter
the cats they come up and will make
good volunteer crop. | had is acres
this year that came up last fall. There
has never been one particle or rust IN
them until this year. This year | had
two fields in volunteer oats and two
sown in the spring. and they all had
the rust badly, nearly ruined. | had one
piece in Burt oats and they did not have
the rust at all.
/
as heavy crop of my oats as l see
you make with the Appler. You aGvo-
cate the sowing Of fall oats in open fur
rows. l am satisfied this Is good
method, but it appears 10 me this is n
very tedious way. 70 go all over a field
with a single pillow making furrow
every 6 or 8 inches would be a tedt-
Gus job. Then go over it again with \
seed and fertilizer distributor would be
another tedious job. as | understand the
IN f,a ha
distributor. have an Iron Age Guilt
vator with one set of teeth that would
make burrows about inches deep and d
inches wide With this l could run FIVE
burrows at a time, but l think they
would be so small they would-with a few
raIrs-fiN up and be about level.
/ had read so much about grain drills
/ bought one this summer for the pur-
pose of sowing peas and small grain.
seeded down about IS acres in rows 2
feet apart and pIowed them. These were
for peas for hogs. | now have my hogs
on them Then I broadcasted field
to make hay for stock. am well pleased
with the machine. But this machine
opens with a disc and don't leave but
very little furrow behind 1t. haEe
Teen thinking about ordering enough
Appler oats to seed down 5 acres. but
If | cant SOW them with my scedpr and
have to send and buy me Can't seed
er then this sets me back again. | send
YOU herein q few grains OF my oats,
grown mis- year and ruined ny the rust.
You Will see the grains are very small.
Can't you send me a few grains of APP
pier cats and let me see them? Now,
this Is not for the paper, but just an
swer me and unhitch me about the SOW
ing OF oats this fail
1t Is now nearly sowing time, so haNo
to hurry up.
Have had long, dry spell here Fine
rain last night viii commence break
ing ny oat land today Want to SOW
about ist of October. I live SO miles
east Of Raleigh.
Please tell me from whom l can get
the genuine Appler oats and how many
should l SOW to the acre?
Answer-The Appler oat is close Sc
lection made twenty years ago by very
Intelligent farmer from the original Texas
rustproof cat. The Georgia experiment
station got seed of Mr.. Appler, the origi-
raj selecter, about thirteen years ago,
and has made careful selections and kept
them pure since that time.
Perhaps the oat that the Georgia farm
or had and of whom you bought bushel
is what is known as the Irwin county
rustproof oat which I used TO grow
thirty or forty years ago and you have
described it very well. This cannot be
the same oat as the Appler, because the
latter mas a long avn preceding from
the back OF e9CN gram Oh odAS- Will
Sc Y, however, that we nave few OF the
back CT brown oats In our Appler oats,
and we are uncertain how they got into
them. and our agrculturlst has expressed
a partial belief that they are a still
farther evolution; but l do not think 50.
think they are what is called the tall
Hack oat and Is a variety of itself and
got into our oats one year when We
we're thrashing them with travelling
thrasher ] think 1t a good variety and
I am selecting it out with view of de-
velcping it. / cannot say, however, that
this black cat Is rustproof. have never
sown it to itself. I have never seen any
rust on our App!er oats nor on the Burt
Ga IS.
You say YOU have never been able 20
make as heavy crop of your oats as we
have made of The Appler. This suggests
that possibly your variety is not as good
a one as ours; but | think the true rea-
so, is you 30 not as we do, nor fer
tilze as literally.
In regard to the open furrow method
the only objection | find to it is the one
that you urle-that it is rather tedious;
but this will not .ong continue. in my
Judgment because some one will invent
a machine that will SOW two or three