. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. OATS AND OATMEAL. 37 fication by the g^ain consists also of two forms; the one a round, plump grain, like a, ^^. 307. and an elongated, thin grain, having a tendency to show awns, as at ^; the a kind being cultivated on the best lands in the low country, the other Fig. 307,. THE POTATO OAT. WHITE SIBEBIAN EABLY OAT. on poorer soils and in high districts. The first is tender, and liable to shake with the wind ; the other is hardy, and able to res
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. OATS AND OATMEAL. 37 fication by the g^ain consists also of two forms; the one a round, plump grain, like a, ^^. 307. and an elongated, thin grain, having a tendency to show awns, as at ^; the a kind being cultivated on the best lands in the low country, the other Fig. 307,. THE POTATO OAT. WHITE SIBEBIAN EABLY OAT. on poorer soils and in high districts. The first is tender, and liable to shake with the wind ; the other is hardy, and able to resist Uie tempest. The former is cultivated chief- ly for human food, yielding meal largely, the latter being raised chiefly for the food of horses. The straw of the former kind is strong and inclined to reediness; that of the latter is fine, pliable, and makes an ex- cellent dry fodder for cattle and horses, there being a good deal of saccharine mat- ter in the joints; the former is considered late in coming to maturity, the latter early, and is consequently so designated, (1519.) The crop of oats varies from 40 to 75 bushels per imperial acre, according to the kind and the circumstance of soil and situation. Oats varj' in weight from 36 lbs. to 48 lbs. per bushel. Whiteness, of a silvery hue, and plumpness, are the criterions of a good sample. The potato oat, 47 lbs. per bushel, gave 134 grains to 1 drachm ; the Siberian early oat, weighing 46 lbs. per bushel, gave 109 grains; and the white Tartarian oat gave 136 grains. A crop of potato oats, yielding 60 bushels to the acre, at 47 lbs. per bushel, will weigh of grain 1 ton 5 cwt. 20 lbs., and will yield of straw 1 ton 5 cwt. 16 lbs., in the neighborhood of a large town ; or, in other words, will yield 8 kemples of 40 windlings each, and each windling 9 lbs. in weight. But I have been made acquainted with a crop of Hopetown oats near Edinburgh of no more than 60 bushels to the imperial acre, yielding 2 tons 18 cwt. 16 lbs. of s
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