The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-04
Grow Winter Oats.


hardier and keep better weight.
L have used the Virginia Gray Turf
oats and the Texas Rust-Proof, but
have had no experience with the Burt
nor the Appler, which have become
popular of late years. The chief dan
ger In getting the Texas oats is, that
II the seed comes from Texas. Won
are apt to get Johnson grass seed with
H. and while Johnson grass is GER
talnly an excellent hay grass, its ag-
gressiveness should keep it out of
sections where it is not now common
Ihe common fault in the South is
100 late sowing of oats, SO that they
are neither winter nor spring. The
pest success is usually had from early
september sowing, or October in the
far South. The soil should have tbe
same careful preparation and fininr
ana compacting of the surface that
wheat demands, for if oats are sown
In very freshly prepared and loose
SOIL they will winter kill worse than
II the soil had been well compacted
by narrowing and tramping before
sowing. Any of the wheat drills will
SOW oats if they are made very clean.
but If not, they will choke with short
straw, etc. Never SOW less than two
bushels per acre, and IL sowing in
spring, SOW two and a half bushels
per acre. If sown in early fall the
pants Will tfller out and thicken. but
they Will do little of this in spring.
In regard to the practice of sowing
In open burrows, 1 can saw notbing
as L have never tried 1t. But there
Is no reason why good crop of win
ter oats should not be grown any,
where from Central Virginia south
IL the land is put in the best condi-
tion. If sown after a corn cron 7
would, after cutting and shocking the
corn, merely disk the land about
three inches deep, but would go over
and over 1T with a drag harrow after
the disk till perfectly fine. If treated
In this way and tramped and har-
roWed till the surface is fine, there
Will be little winter killing if the seed
are sown with hoe drill that will
put them in about three inches and
leave burrows to feed in to them.
Sow clean seed. If YOU find cheat
In the crop in the spring, it will be
because you SOW cheat seed in the
1ah. Fhe cheat seed looks like q
shrivelled oat, and with a good fan
they can be blown out, as they are
hgnter than oats. But set it down as
a fact that If you SOW clean oats and
there is no cheat seed in your soil,
you Will never have any cheat in the
crop, for no cheat ever grew from
an oat seed, but always from its own
seed and no other. Hence the i'm
portance of getting perfectly clean
seed.
If your corn was grown on a sod
that had manure spread on it as 1t
should be. you will need only acid
phosphate on red land and acid phos-
phate and potash on gray or sandy
soil. Say 800 pounds of acid phos-
phate and twenty-five pounds of muri-
ate OF potash per acre.
Where man farms with a good
rotation of corn, oats and cotton, with
crimson clover and peas thrown in at
every chance, there is no reason why
any farmer in the South should not
get his land up to the making of sixty
TO seventy-five bushels of oats per
acre, and find them a very profitable
crop.-Professor Massey.
Field Selection OF Seed Corn and To-
bacco Seed.
Selecting seed corn in the field is
far better than selecting simply the
best ears in the bin in spring, provid-
Ing the selection is wisely done. The
difticulty in the general field crop is
that the plants that we ind there