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Show GOOD OATS FOR DRY FARMING Best Plan to Sow Two Varieties, Kherson for Frly Crop and Swedish Swed-ish Select for Late. (By J. E. PAYNE, Colorado Agrtcultuni College.) Of the many varieties of oats which we have tested on Irrigated land, the Kherson and Sixty-day have generally made the best yields of grain. This has been because these varieties are early-maturing. Usually, Usual-ly, the earliest variety of oats will give the best results on unlrrigated land; but some years the drought comes Just as the early varieties are heading or filling. They are then cut short It often happens that rain comes Just a few days too late to make the early oats fill well. In such a time, a variety which ripens ten days or two weeks later will be heading head-ing just at the right time to be benefited bene-fited by the rain which was too late for the early variety. In this case, the later variety will make a good crop when the early one will fall. With these facts before us, we can see that it Is a good -plan to sow two varieties of oats: Kherson for early, and Swedish Select, or Colorado No. 37, for the late variety; then, If drought strikes either variety, it may give a small yield of hay. The later varieties of oats will usually make more straw than the early ones, so they may be planted for hay. Land which has been In corn the year before, be-fore, and has been given clean cultivation, culti-vation, will usually furnish a good seedbed for oats by double-disking the corn stubble. |