Show MANY WAYS OF SOWING OATS question arises as an to advisability of making any of the sol soil oats oata has been such an uncertain crop la in many of the western states often the beat crop being from a field that was sown broadcast and scratched in any old way that a question has been raised among farmers as to tho the advisability of making any preparation of the soil eoll other than gotting getting the aba seed geed scattered and enough to tol worked up to cover them in some sections this lick iek of tho the proper preparation Is the rule rather than the exception A great many flow BOW the seed among corn stalks and disc or cover with the cultivator bar row rowing ing afterward in some cases this plan has produced good crops but from my observation and experience the best crops of oats are grown on land that has been well broken either in tho the tall fall or the tha early spring and tho the oats drilled in at the rate of two bushels to the acre when seed are put in in this way there Is no trusting to td a rain to finish covering them an and d they will begin to germinate at once the seed are nil all put in tho the ground to the same depth resulting in an oven even stand bland when the seed are sown on top and cultivated or disked in some will be covered deep and in some cases shallow or not at all the birds will get somo some of them or la in a few weeks ot of dry weather they will not at once it a hard rain comes while covering and before the barrow has been run over the ground it can never be smoothed so that a binder can be run over it with comfort to the driver |