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Vol. XXIX. No. 36
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914
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BE SURE TO SOW OATS THIS FALL
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WHEN PROPERLY HANDLED OATS MAY BE MADE ONE OF OUR MOST PROFITABLE CROPS
AS the season for sowing oats is, in most sections of the South, at
hand, we wish to emphasize particularly three reasons why Pro
gressive Farmer readers should arrange to sow during the early
fall months, a liberal acreage of this profitable crop.
First of all, adverse seasons in many
sections have made it fairly certain
that our corn crop will be short;
and at the same time the European
war has made it very" probable that
next spring feeds of all kinds will be
high-priced. With cheap cotton and
expensive corn, the man who has to
buy feed next spring will be in hard
straits indeed. It is, in fact, difficult
to see how such a man can afford not
to plant liberally of fall grain.
Our second reason is that fall oats,
when put in properly and followed
with a leguminous hay crop, have
almost uniformly proved profitable,
while oats sown in late winter or early
spring have seldom been found to
jpay. With the new open-furrow drills
that are now to be had, we can safely
say that fall-sown oats may, without
BE SURE TO READ
Eight Livestock Suggestions for September .
Farmer's Union Field Notes ........
Fifteen Hundred Bushels of Oats on Seven
teen Acres
Four Reasons for Planting More Oats . . .
Fumigating a Tenant House 9
How to Avoid Failure With Oats . . .
September Suggestions For the Housewife .
The Cotton Situation as Seen From the Field
The Joys of Being Middle-aged ..... 8
The Potash Situation ......... 3
Wheat and Oats in the South 4
Why Not Make the Farm Self -Supporting? ... 16
great danger of winter killing, be planted in all parts of the Cot
ton Belt, and that. yields from oats so sown may be counted upon
to average double oats sown in February or March. This fact has
been amply demonstrated by many of our Southern experiment
stations, and is in line with the ex
perience of our most successful oat
growers.
The third reason we wish to em
phasize is this: If the present war is
long continued there will probably be
much talk and speculation regarding
crops to take the place of cheap
cotton. For such a crop, bearing in
mind its cheapness of production and
quick returns, oats, followed by cow
peas, soy beans, or lespedeza, are un
excelled. In view of the present situation,
no farmer worthy of the name can
afford to buy feed to grow cheap
cotton. In fact, it will in many cases
be well to plant cash crops other
than cotton. As such a crop oats
and hay are worthy of the most care
ful consideration. .
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