. The cereals in America. Broadcast seeder attached to the end gate cf farm wagon and driven by rear wheel. Drawing en the right shows hopper with grass seed attachment. dt or just after seeding, or soil is of a character to suiter from dr}- weather, drilling would be preferred. If drilling is accom- panied by better preparation of seed bed, it is to be preferred. Broadcasting requires more seed, perhaps a half bushel to the acre more, much depending upon the preparation of the seed bed. The same seeding machiner}* de- scribed for sowing wheat may I used for oats. (135) The broad- cast seeder
. The cereals in America. Broadcast seeder attached to the end gate cf farm wagon and driven by rear wheel. Drawing en the right shows hopper with grass seed attachment. dt or just after seeding, or soil is of a character to suiter from dr}- weather, drilling would be preferred. If drilling is accom- panied by better preparation of seed bed, it is to be preferred. Broadcasting requires more seed, perhaps a half bushel to the acre more, much depending upon the preparation of the seed bed. The same seeding machiner}* de- scribed for sowing wheat may I used for oats. (135) The broad- cast seeder attached to the end gate of a wagon is widely used where oats follow maize without plowing. Kansas Station found during seven years an average of twent}--six bushels by broadcasting and thirty bushels by drill- ing. Slightly better results have been obtained by using the shoe drill with press wheels than by the shoe drill without press wheel or by hoe drill.^ 413. Method of Fall Sowing.—The Georgia Station recom- mends the following method to prevent winter killing: " On the station farm we have found, even when the drills were laid two feet or one and a half feet apart, using a common scooter plow, or. better, a single-row fer- tilizer and seed distributer—that oats so sown alwaj^s produce a larger yield than when sown broadcast and harrowed in. But a more important discover}- is the fact that when the seed are sown in open furrows and barely covered, leaNing the furrows open or unfilled, the oat plants are very much less liable to be killed by a severe freeze. The idea was conceived several years ago, and annually since we have sown the larger portion of the fall-sown area in drills eighteen to twentj'-four inches apart, latterly using a Gantt fertilizer distributer. This sows but one row at a. Grain and fertilizer drill recomimended by Georgia Sta- tion for fall seeding cf oats. The ccvering attach- ments, a, are removed when sowing oats. 1 Kan. BuL 74. p. 20a. Plea
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