The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-11-16
FARMER AND
PLANTER
OATS. GLOVER AND vETcH.
Timely Suggestions Concerning see'
and FertiIixing Crops.

Timely SUGGESTIONS SoS
and FertiIixing Crops.
The seeding of the oat crop snouio
he attended to at once. Unless winner
.ats are nut in early enough to make
: good growth before the frosts set III
thew are very apt not to make crop
worth growing. They should have
dime to get deep rooted and titled so
As to protect the roots and Keep ene
frost from throwing them out OF Tue
land. In experiments made, at the
Alabama station, Red Rust Proof oats
sown in the fall made a much heavier
Weld than Virginia Grey winter sown
At the same time, but ii Virginia Grey
winter oats are sown in September,
our experience has been that they OUT
Weld any of the other varieties anu
are less subject to winter killing. Tne
Annler and the Culberson oats nave
also given good crops when SEEDED
either early in the fall or IN the carry
suring--say February. In Alabama IL
has been found that sowing In deep
drills in October and using the roller
after the plants have been thrown up
NV the frost are the most enective
means for preventing winter killing.
As compared with oats sown broadcast
those seeded in deep drills yielded
three bushels per acre more where the
deem burrows were only partly nlied
and two bushels more when the TUT
rows were almost completely hlied.
The results of the fertilizer tests
showed that heterogeneous fertilizers
were more profitable than phosphate
or notash on the sandy and loamy
soils of Alabama, but they also indi'
Gated that on such soils the appiica
/ tion of one hundred pounds OF aclo
phosphate per acre at the time OF SOW
ing was advisable. In this State VIC
!. have abundant evidence that the appii
j, cation of acid phosphate Is ATTENDED
Q with advantage. especially when fol
Q lowed by a top dressing OF nitrate
p soda at the rate Of from one nunore'
Il to two hundred pounds to the acre al
II ulied in the spring. Seeding afte
. Moving down cowpeas, soy BEANS Q
& other leguminous crops, whether Tn
p entire crop was plowed under or onl
70 the stubble, gave an increase IN ID
% oat crop of from six to thirty-thre
n bushels per acre. Virginia Grey WI
. ter oats seeded in September on Ian
II we'll prepared, and in q good state
Or fertility and top dressed with farr
~ ward manure during the early winte
40 We have known to give yield OF Sc
us entv-hye bushels to the acre In u
CT middle section of Virginia. To pr
y, duce only from fifteen to twenty-n
90 bushels to the acre, the average vie
here when 30 much greater yield
possible ought to be sufficient r.
son for not sowing oats on poor la
badly prepared Try the better "
~. and see II it is not more satisfactor!
he Keep on sowing crimson clover,
~ hairy vetch, or winter vetcn, ana I
wheat oat and rye mixture on all Ia
.r from which other crops are harvest
- and which is not wanted for oat
~ wheat crops. This will make COY
,.r for the land and conserve and add
IN the fertility of the land, and make
S0t ling or nay OF u 8ASSh AoAA0" W r,
mrs down for corn and other crops IN
| IN suring. All the land in the Sol
.ble needs to have more vegetable mat
and nut into the soil SO as to make 1t 7
we'd IN humus. which conserves moistr
ach. makes fertilizer available and
of vents baking Of the soil. Thousa'
ouf- of dollars spent in fertilizers can
saved by sowing these crops and M
better results be obtained. and
cost is SO small that no farmer shc
and hesitate to incur the cost 1t Is m
zone more certain to result in profit t
,mic many times the amount spent IN
use- tilizing in the spring. Sow tw'
may pounds of crimson clover and II
date pecks of wheat, oats and rye per a
and one bushel Of hairy vetch or
one ter vetch with half bushel OF
cup grain mixture per acre. 1t Is not
cup essary to plow land before puttin'
pfuis this crop II the same was well
wder pared for the crop which has
pans harvested. The land can be prep
Vi Q. with the disc harrow and the
ana covered with spike tooth harro'
a cultiyator.- southern Fainter.