. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 494 OATS OIL-BEARING PLANTS of a fall-sown oat crop into a reasonable surety. It has been exploited in Georgia for some fifteen years, and although it made slow progress at first, now that its advantages are more fully realized it is being rapidly adopted by the public. Under this system grain may be seeded as late as the last week in November with the assurance of a good stand and of the crop passing the winter uninjured. Throughout the cotton-belt the loss from the "winter-killing" of hand-sown fall oats ranges from one crop in
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 494 OATS OIL-BEARING PLANTS of a fall-sown oat crop into a reasonable surety. It has been exploited in Georgia for some fifteen years, and although it made slow progress at first, now that its advantages are more fully realized it is being rapidly adopted by the public. Under this system grain may be seeded as late as the last week in November with the assurance of a good stand and of the crop passing the winter uninjured. Throughout the cotton-belt the loss from the "winter-killing" of hand-sown fall oats ranges from one crop in two to one in three, equivalent to an annual average loss of at least 40 per cent. With the "open furrow" method, an annual average loss of 4 per cent would seem to be an excessive estimate. Moreover, the yield is relatively greater, while its additional cost is comparatively moderate. Details of the "open furrow" method. The details of the process are as follows :—The corn land of the previous year is well broken and harrowed, preferably in the first or second week in October. The implement at first used for. Fig. 722. "Open furrow" oat-growing. planting was a light, one-horse combination seeder and fertilizer distributer, seeding and at the same time fertilizing only one row at a time. It was provided with a six-inch "shovel" plow- point to open the furrow, into which were drilled seed and fertilizer together from separate hoppers and in any desired quantity. The covering was effected by means of a wheel at the rear of the implement. An "open furrow" machine, however, has recently been devised by which four rows at a time may be seeded in place of one if the oats are exceptionally well cleaned. The machine will doubtless be still further perfected and eventually supersede the original "single row" implement. The seeds on germination thus occupy the bottom of an open furrow some four inches deep, where the roots fi
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