. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. GRAIN CROPS SZ OATS PRODUCTION Importance.—The importance of oats in the United States is shown by the fact that about one billion bushels are grown each year. The important oat-producing states are in the central west, with Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska leading. Oats are commonly grown throughout the world, and in the same countries that produce wheat. The United States, Russia, Germany, France and Canada are the principal oat-producing countries. In 1914 there were raised in the United States, 1,141,- 060,000 bushels, valued at $4
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. GRAIN CROPS SZ OATS PRODUCTION Importance.—The importance of oats in the United States is shown by the fact that about one billion bushels are grown each year. The important oat-producing states are in the central west, with Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska leading. Oats are commonly grown throughout the world, and in the same countries that produce wheat. The United States, Russia, Germany, France and Canada are the principal oat-producing countries. In 1914 there were raised in the United States, 1,141,- 060,000 bushels, valued at $499,431,000. The acreage was 38,442,000. Iowa and Illinois lead all the states in the pro- duction of oats. The average yield per acre for the United States is bushels. The annual world production is about 4,500,000,000 bushels. Kinds.—There are winter and spring oats. Hulled, or common, oats is either "side" or "spreading" as its branches are about even and turn to one side or are of different lengths and stand out at various angles. Again, oats may be divided according to the color of the hull. Most of the oats grown in the United States is of the spring variety. Soil for Oats.—Oats, like wheat, do well on a variety of soils. That one, however, which permits early seeding and germination is likely to mature its crop early. Oats needs an abundance of mois- ture. Loams and clay loams, therefore, furnish a good bed. It should be just fairly fertile. Figure 10. A good sheaf of oats If -too ricli. m tho prescuce of well capped. plentiful moisture weak stems and diseases are likely to occur. Oats thrives on cool soil and in cool Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875- [from old catalog]; Wilson, E. W. , [from old catalog] joint author. S
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