. Agriculture and the farming business . in the corn region. Foroats are needed, (1) to make possible the rotation of crops,and (2) as a food for stock, especially working crop, like corn and wheat, can easily be increased inyield and profit by improving the soil and employing bet-ter methods of seed selection and tillage. It is not impos-sible to secure an average yield of from fifty to seventy-fivebushels to the acre throughout the oat region. Types of Oats Two general types or classes of oats are easily dis-tinguished—the spreading, or panicled, and the side-bearingor horse-mane
. Agriculture and the farming business . in the corn region. Foroats are needed, (1) to make possible the rotation of crops,and (2) as a food for stock, especially working crop, like corn and wheat, can easily be increased inyield and profit by improving the soil and employing bet-ter methods of seed selection and tillage. It is not impos-sible to secure an average yield of from fifty to seventy-fivebushels to the acre throughout the oat region. Types of Oats Two general types or classes of oats are easily dis-tinguished—the spreading, or panicled, and the side-bearingor horse-mane. The former has a spreading, bush-likehead, branching from all sides of the central stem; thelatter carries the grains on short branches, all of which areattached to one side of the stem. Varieties for different regions.—It is impossible totell how many different varieties of these two types in the case of wheat and corn, new varieties are being THE FARMING BUSINESS 135 mt iij^iinjx ji _, I ii^ I ^ mill hiM •#^ ^\ r ft H. nU-^ ; -^^ Two types of oat heads: spreading or panicled on the left;side or horse-mane on the right. 136 AGRICULTURE AND developed from year to year. Several hundred differentvarieties are now shown in the seed lists. In New England, the northern tier of states and theRocky Mountain region, white oats of rather late-ma-turing, large-grained varieties are usually most successful. pr:i:M\- ? ? i i
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