Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1890 — Oats. [ARTICLE]

Oats.

_ Notwithstand Ing that the American farmers do not place oats as high as does the English farmer, or as high as they place some other crops, where the soil is adapted to oats it is a profitable crop. Wherever oats will grow and yield well on well prepared, fertile ground, it is a good crop to grow. No matter what be the market price, good young farm animals will pay a good price for the grain. The grain is rich in the muscle and bone formers, hence is a most excellent feed for yonng things—much superior to corn. s Oats straw has, when fed in connection with such other feeds as will produce a well balanced ration, a feeding value compared by weight with average meadow as two to three; that is, three pounds of the straw are equal to two pounds of average meadow hay,. ‘Two many of us do not cut the oats until the straw has passed the point of highest feeding values; we do not keep it nicely, we feed it slovenly and in unbalanced rations, and as we thus waste nearly half the crop we do not find it very profitable.