Show MANY WAYS OF SOWING OATS question arises as to advisability of making any of the soil oats has been such an uncertain crop in many ot the western states often the best crop being from a field that n as sown broadcast and scratched in any old way that a question has been raised among farmers as to the advisability of making any preparation ot the soil other than getting the seed scattered and enough soil worked up to cover them in come sections this lack ot tho proper preparation la the rule rather than the exception A great many BOW the seed among corn stalks and disc or cover with the cultivator harrowing 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 the fall or the early spring and 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 a rain to finish covering them and they will begin to germinate at once the seed are all put in the ground to the same depth resulting in an even stand when the seed are sown on top and cultivated or disked in some will be covered deep and in some cases low or not at all the birds will get some of them or in a few weeks of dry weather they will not at once it a hard rain comes while covering and before the harrow has been run over the ground it can never be smoothed smoot ned so that a binder can be run over it with comfort to the driver |