Show importance of oats in one rotation of crops being engaged as we are in general genera farming we find oats oata play a very important part in our rotation of corn oats and grass or clover because they act as a nurse crop to the hay oats form the main grain ration of most farm animals being more of a muscle building than a fattening food writes birney marble in the michigan farmer for years behave we have fed them ground to the work horses mixed with corn to the dairy tattle cattle and with bran and muk milk to the poultry during the winter we feed oat straw with a little timothy to the work horses to winter them over when not at work of any kind the straw that remains uneaten is used for bedding being unexcelled for this purpose as it absorbs liquids easily readily rots rota in the manure and has a high fertilizing til izing value to put it all in a nutshell we grow oats because V they are a square peg in a square hole being well adopted to both the michigan climate and our needs as aa we can use both the grain and straw to a better advantage than that of any other grain |