Excerpt from Varieties of Oats for Illinois The system of rotating corn and oats is not so injurious to the productivity of the soil as growing corn every year. On the Morrow plots at the University of Illinois, where corn has been grown every year since 1879 Without soil treatment, the last 23-year average yield of corn is bushels an acre, whereas on the nearby plot that has been cropped to corn and oats alternately, the yield of corn for the same period is bushels an acre. The average yield of oats during this period is ...
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Excerpt from Varieties of Oats for Illinois The system of rotating corn and oats is not so injurious to the productivity of the soil as growing corn every year. On the Morrow plots at the University of Illinois, where corn has been grown every year since 1879 Without soil treatment, the last 23-year average yield of corn is bushels an acre, whereas on the nearby plot that has been cropped to corn and oats alternately, the yield of corn for the same period is bushels an acre. The average yield of oats during this period is bushels an acre. The average value of the crops produced each year on the corn and oats plot, according to the average December 1 price, is an acre more than that of the corn from the continuous-corn plot. It is commonly conceded that changing from corn to oats and then back to corn is not a good rotation, yet there are certain advantages in the practice. Also the cost of labor required to produce a crop of oats is considerably less than that needed to grow a crop of corn. Another advantage which the culture of oats affords is the opportunity of oh taining a stand of clover. Altho barley is generally conceded to be the best nurse crop for clover and alfalfa, it is not greatly superior in this respect to the early-maturing varieties of oat-s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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