Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-12


therefore be discarded.
OF the varieties which stood the
severity of the winter in question
and made good yields, the following
are worthy of mention:
Winter Turf ......... 1925 bushels
CuIberson ........... 21.S7 bushels
Bicknell ............. IL ~ DuSheiS
ApDler " S9S bushels
Texas Rust Proof -. 8.1S bushels
Fulghum ......... 7.03 bushels
There has always been an impress
low. in fact much below those OBJ
tanned in previous years, They seem
to indicate fairly well, however, the
relative hardness of the varieties
mentioned and give a line on the
desirability OF those to be chosen for
planting so as to best insure a salts
factory yield when extreme weather
conditions are likely to develop.
Three has always been an impress
sion in the minds of our farmers
that oats need not be planted until
November and December in order to
secure good yields. This is a very
grave error. Our experiments, now
extending through a period of some
ten to twelve years, show that the
Iate-planted oats are nearly always
destroyed, while those planted early
may mike a very good return per
acre. To further emphasize the i'm
portance of this matter and drive
HOIIl0 the pEOpOSIIIOu III SUCH
as to engage the consideration of our
farmers, tests demonstrating the
point in question have been conduct
ed for a number of years past. In
the spring of 1918, for instance, APP
pier oats seeded on the 18th of Oc-
per acre. When seeded November
18th they made yield of 6.25 bush
els per acre. Planting in October
as compared with November, there
fore. resulted in an increase in yield
of 14.06 bushels per acre. This illus
tration of itself should convince ev-
eryone of the necessity of emphasize
ing early planting.
We are frequently asked what
quantity of oats should be planted
per acre. To determine this point
tests have been made for some years
on the rate of seeding Appler and
Fulghum oats. The paintings were
When ten pecks, or two and a half
bushels, were used per acre the
highest yields were obtained. 1t
should be remembered, of course,
that this was in a year when sea-
sonal conditions were very favorable.
Eight peckS gave a very good result,
and six pecks would be recommended
under ordinary conditions. We are
disposed to think that it is better,
however, to plant about two bushels
OF oats per acre,
AS to the method of planting,
tests looking to the determination
of the best practice to pursue have
now been in progress since 1911. The
! six years average showed that when
| oats were planted with a grain drill
the yield was 1882 bushels per acre,
and when planted in the open furroW
| 44.8 bushels. Immediately a great
many people will say that there is
| little to choose, therefore, between
the methods of planting. They over
| look the important fact, however
that these oats were planted under
| the most favorable conditions, early
in the season and on well-prepare
and fortified land, that those put
! down by the grain drill were planted
after all in shallow burrows, and that
oats so planted would have a very
| material advantage over those sown
broadcast or planted in poorly pre-
pared land. In an unfavorable sea-
son there is no question but that the
| open furroW is the method Of seed
| ing to follow. For instance, in 1915
We found that where the land was
plowed and the oats planted in the
open furrow the yield was 23.8 bush
els. When the land was disked and
| the oats planted in the open furrow
the yield was 31.4 bushels. Wher
the land was plowed and the oats
disk drilled in the yield was 1862
| DlSL6IS, w ueI JU6 1dUu Was OlShSC
and the oats seeded in the disk drill
the yield was 1898 bushels. This
| bears out and fully substantiates the
| deduction made and previously pre-
scented. ..'t ".
AS far as the row is concerned
there is no doubt in my mind that
even if the cost of seeding be more
and the rate of seeding more, the
method practiced on the average
Georgia farm is to plant oats in the
| open furrow. When this is done anC
a reasonable amount of plant food is
applied and the land is prepared with
any degree of skill profitable yields
per acre will be obtained. Pre-,
suming that one may succeed in
raising a crop of oats once in every
| two out of three years by planting
with grain drill, there is still nc
| justification in following this method
as compared with that of planting ir
the open furrow. Whenever the oat
crop is lost on a farm that is prop
| erly organized it means that the
grain fed will have to be purchased
for the live stock maintained there
on. 1t will call for the outlay of 6
considerable amount Of money for q
crop that farmer is capable of pro
ducing if he takes a little more
pains in the matter of planting. Nc
matter how he seeds his oat crop
he has performed threefourths OF
| Tie "OIh IISCSSSdIy " ODIdIU d SOOC
yield. Therefore, why take any
chance in this matter? It is absurd
that we should continue to waste oul
energy and lose every year the oat
crop planted on several hundred
thousand acres of land because OF
the idea that in an average season
| we can raise the crop successfully by
drilling or broadcasting it into tht
! land rather than seeding it in the
open furroW.
| In various fertilizer tests con
Quoted on our demonstration field i
appears that acid phosphate and sui
plate of ammonia have proved a:
| desirable amendments to the GA
crop as any materials which coult
be used. 1t is not to be concluded
from this statement that these are
Witch 5de only Eou fTq ba reT5an{ element;
that the use of other fertilizing in
| gradients will not pay from time to
| tive. However, the addition of 100