Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-01-16
next FARMERS meet 6 I
WEDNESDAY,, ! | JAN. 29. 2!
PAPER READ ON OATS BY MEM
BER OF BETTER FARMING Z
ASSOCIATION.

. =
Farming association will be held
January 20. The sub
ject which will be then expressly
taken up will be s..Live Stock" At
the last meeting OF the association
a lively interest was seen in the dis
cussion Of grain growing. Two pa;
pers, one on oats and one on wheat,
were read by members of the asso-
citation, and third paper prepared
by another member was omitted by
absence. Lewis Allen,
who read paper on wheat, adj
deep summer following and
states that his experience has shown
better results have been secured by
plowing from one to two inches deep
er in summer fallowing than for
merly.
A Paper ON Oats.
The following paper was read by
George Lawrence, on Oats"
"Oats constitute the great horse
feed, without which the farmer finds
it difficult to keep his horses In good
condition the year around. Other
grains can be substituted, such as
barley, wheat, corn and speltz, but
in all cases except corn the grains
must be ground, and for long con-
tinued feeding must be mixed with
some other grain, which is gener-
ally oats. The cost of grinding add
ed to this make these grains more
expensive and inconvenient to use,
and most horsemen agree that the
good results obtained by feeding
heavy we'll cleaned oats cannot be
secured by feeding those other
grains. Oats seem to contain sub
stance which builds up the muscle
Of the horse and keeps him in
more vigorous condition than any
other grain. =
''For brood sows, milch cows, and
all young growing stock. oats make
very good feed, and while it is bet
ter to grind them, where one has no
feed mill they can be fed whole with
good results, which cannot be done
with any Of the other grains. Some
cut the oats when green and feed
in the bundle, which makes a very
fine feed.
"One-half bushel oats per acre
planted with one peck millet, makes
a very fine hay mixture; for feeding
horses and cattle, oat straw rivals
any other straw.
.'The wheat crop is considered by
some to be of vastly greater impor-
tance than the oat crop, and of course
it comes before oats as a cash crop,
but il one neglects to plant at least
a portion of the oat crop early, he is,
one year with another running a.
risk of being short Of horse feed.
loss that cannot be made up with
few extra acres Of wheat which
might have been sown. IA
Early oats. or oats planted
around the goth of April, generally
yield better and weigh more per
bushel than when planted later on.
This year early planting yielded
close to so bushel per acre, weigh
ing over 40 pounds per bushel. while
those planted during the first days
of June yielded 40 bushels or less
and only weighed 80 or 3s pounds
per bushel. Oats yielding SO meas
sursd bushels per acre Weighing 40
pounds to the measured Sbushel, are
equivalent to Is bushels per acre Of
oats which only weigh 80 pounds
per measured bushel, making q gain
this year Of about 35 bushels per
acre in favor Of early sowing; be-
sides pound for pound the heavy oats
are 4 more valuable. on account Of
there being less hulls.
.'Ths best results are generally se-
cured when tho planting 10 done
somewhere around the goth Of April
on fall plowing, at . depth Of about
three inches using u little less than
two Bushels par acre of we'll famed
oats, which should be treated with
formald dehyde. On an average 4
think the White Russian oats have.
given the bests results IN this 10
cality, III VI Il
- coheluilon VIII ~ that Il one
3sivss stks III crop proper attention,i
plantins lArss enough scrsa 10 TO M
surs1 y 9snesoss 4 supply hSiss VIII
scared ~ IN found short sof1
horss ~ u eond Hon }which ~ A.
lconrs IN \ Slaaid lai n 81 scidllyI
in ma yeaiiss, 81 ~ invariablys