SOWING SEED.
Many experiments have been made as to the advantages or otherwise of sowing thickly or thinly ■ but they must, all of them, necessarily possess little more than a local interest, as the peculiarities of soil, climate, aud manuring affect the results. R. Henrich recently published an account of trials made with oats in a poor, sandy field, with a partial inclination towards the south. In 1879 three plots were sown with 5, 71 and 10 kilos of oats ; the yield was somewhat greater in the more thickly sown plots, but not in proportion to the seed sown, being only 5 : 6 : 7. The experiments were repealed in the following year on a much larger scale, with confirmai ory results. The conclusions arrived at are: — Thick sowing produces a larger number of plants in a given space, but the plants are individually weaker. The quantity of stalk produced varies very little in weight, whatever the quantity of seed ] used on a given space of ground. A poor sod should be sown thinly.— Home Paper.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 6, 5 July 1882, Page 3
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175SOWING SEED. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 6, 5 July 1882, Page 3
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