Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — OATS BEST CROP [ARTICLE]

OATS BEST CROP

Statistics Show Advantages Over Com Growing. Or fcomparatlvsly Cheap Land la Western Canada Farmers Get Reo•rd Yields—Coat Per Acre Much Less Than Com. - ■ , ■ t How much more does it cost to grow an acre of com than to grow an lacre of oats? To get a proper comiparison It is necessary to take an 11Oustratton from a farm on which both crops are grown successfully. An extample has just been brought to the "writer’s attention of the comparative cost of growing corn and oats on a Minnesota farm. It is furnished by Albert Inmer, a well-known fanner in Cottonwood county, Minn., in an article which appeared in the Cottonbrood Gtlaen.

Mr. Inmer says: “I had a curiosity ‘to know how much it would cost to raise an acre of oats and corn. To (find out I kept account, during the .year, of the time required and the ■cash expended to grow the above men'Honed crops.” His figures show that tit cost him $31.49 to grow an acre of ‘com and $18.131-3 to grow an acre of oats, or a difference of $13.00 an acre tin favor of pats. Provided the respective crop yields are not altogether out of proportion to the cost of growing the crop, this •coma to be a good argument in favor of growing oats. But to grow oats sui r tashilly it la not necessary to use <sl6o or S2OO land. In western Canada some of the best oat-growing land tn the world can be bought for about S2O «n acre. On thia land good yields and a high quality of grain Is obtainable. Fifty to sixty bushels to the acre tn properly prepared land is a fair average yield for oats in western Canada tn a normal season but yields of up to 100 bushels, and even more, to the acre have been frequent in good years. The quality of oats grown in western Canada is attested by the fact that at all the international exhibitions for many years past oats grown to western Canada have been awarded the leading prises. There is on record oats grown in western Canada that have weighed as much as 48 pounds to the measured bushel, and the dominion grain Inspector is author §y tor the statement that 85 per cent of the oats examined by him in west•ern Canada weigh more than 42 pounds to the measured bushel. The standard weight for a bushel of oats Is 84 pounds. Samples of these oats weighing upward of 45 pounds to the bushel are <m exhibition at the Canadian government information bureau, located in various cities in the United States.- - Advertisement.