Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . hocks,and then stored for se\eral ^A-eeks in a stack or barn l^efore beingthreshed; however, oats are often handled directly from theshock to the threshing machine. Damp or rainy weather duringthreshing renders this operation slower and more incomplete. 33. Yields. — For the first few 3ears in the twentiethcentury the worlds oat cro]) averaged api:iroximately3,500,000,000 loushels, of which more than one foin-th wasproduced in the United States, on aliout 28,000,000 average for the United States is usually between 30and 35 bushels p
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . hocks,and then stored for se\eral ^A-eeks in a stack or barn l^efore beingthreshed; however, oats are often handled directly from theshock to the threshing machine. Damp or rainy weather duringthreshing renders this operation slower and more incomplete. 33. Yields. — For the first few 3ears in the twentiethcentury the worlds oat cro]) averaged api:iroximately3,500,000,000 loushels, of which more than one foin-th wasproduced in the United States, on aliout 28,000,000 average for the United States is usually between 30and 35 bushels per acre. This yield is much l^elow thatin Germany and Great Britain. For oats sowar in the fall in the cotton-belt a yield ofless than 20 bushels may be regarded as poor ; of 20 to 30bushels as fair; and a good yield is one exceeding 40bushels per acre. A medium yield of oat hay is about one ton jier acre,which may be greatly increased by the lib(>ral use of nilrateof soda or by sowing seed of hairy vetch or crimson OA TS 27 *1Ji( ^.^^M a -*V. Fig. 11. — Grains ghown with Crimson Clover tor atAlabama Experiment Station. On left, oats ; on right, wheat. 28 SOUTHER]^ FIELD CROPS clover with the seed oats in September or Octobei(Fig. 11). For oats sown after Christmas in the Gulf States the yields maybe taken as not quite two thirds of the figures for fall-sown oatson the same land. In several instances yields of more than 100 bushels per acrehave been reported in the Southern States. At the Alabama Experiment Station on poor, sand} loam soilthe yield averaged about one and one half times as many bushelsof faU-sown oats as of corn similarly fertilized. Considering thatoats weigh 32 pounds per bushel, as compared with 56 pounds perbushel of corn, there was nearly an equal weight of grain producedwhether the crop was corn or oats. In the case of a medium yield of Red Rust-proof oats there isabout one pound of straw for each pound of threshed is, a yield of
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