The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
SAVE YOUR SEED OATS OR BUY
THE RIGHT KIND.

One of the most common and obvious
causes of the failure of individual oat
crops in the south is the planting Of seed
of varieties or strains of oats that are not
adapted to outhern conditions of soil and
climate A farmer concludes, along in
October or November, that he will sow u
field to oats He has no seed of his
own growing and can get none from his
neighbors so he applies to his grocer in
his home town and gets the best that are
to be had. He may get a ruSt-proof va
riety and he may not. 1t is often the
case that the store man does not know
what variety he has on hand Many
times the farmer buys feed oats instead
Of seed ITS. A large proportion, If not
all of the oats shipped south from the
northwest are from sprinS-sown crops
1t is a fact not generally known that
variety Of oats may be sown annually
in the spring for long term of years
until ii will in large measure lose Its
power of resistance to cold and otherwise
unfavorabla conditions to which 1t would
be exposed If sown in the fall believe
it Is true that If most hardy. cold
resisting verety be sown for ten years
IN succession IN the early spring mot In
january that it will become tender and
non-resistant in great measure to the
occa sional severe freezes that we have in
January and February This is especial
~ true, know. when Burt oats are sown
In the fall OF the year in the ordinary,
old-fashioned way.
The main purpose Of this article Is to
insist that every farmer who has pro-
duced satisfactory yield OF oats and IS
pleased with the variety, shall save
seed" and not feed them all away TO
his mules and horses. This suggestion,
in many cases. will be met with the ok
cuse that there IS no threshing machine
in the neighborhood; bur this is hardly
better than no excuse a all when ii Is
known that farmer can thresh out
enough oats for seed by striking each
bundle of GA a few times over an open
barrel as he daily handles them in feed
ing Or he can make job of il and fail
out enough seed oats on rainy days. As
Il matter of practice it is rather bad
plan to feed oats "in the bundle;' # not
run through a machine and cut up, It Is
a very bad plan The best authorities
agree that oats should he threshed and
fed a clean. threshed grain. Rather than
feed them in the bundle. Just as they
come from the field. better plan (hav-
ing no regular feed cutter) is to lay
each bundle on a solid block and cut the
heads off with one blow OF a broad-ax.
But # the farmer has reaped an unsat-
isfactory crop, or has had none to reap
but Intends to SOW next fall, he should
at once buy or engage seed oats Of an
approved variety that were produced in
the south or southwest. from q fail-sown
crop
From what I can learn. the yield OF
the fail oat crop, just harvested has been
very good. Yields OF IS and 100 bushels
per acre have been reported in Spaldng
county. Georgia The Georgia expert
ment station made about fifty bushels per
acre. the crop over" and is now filing,
or fllng, cash orders for either imme-
date or future shipment at $l.00 per
bushel-the same price as last year,
when every bushel was sold by August
l. As most readers perhaps know the
station sows the "Appler' rust-proof oat.
a variety originally selected about
twenty-odd years ago from the old Red
rust proof" and kept pure by careful
selection for the last twelve years.
Address all inquiries or orders, accom-
panied by postoffice order on Griffin
Ga, postoffice. for the amount of oats
desired Cor cash, per registered letter.. to
Georgia Experiment Station. Expert
ment Ga" r ]. REDDING.