SKINLESS OATS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2149, 14 January 1881, Page 3

SKINLESS OATS.

The Auckland "Herald" says:—"The skinless oats, which were introduced here last year by Mr Wren, are likely to prove very suitable for our climate. Mr R. 0. Taylor, near Buokland's station, Pukekoho, purchased a pound of the seed from Mr Wren for Is, and he has now ascertained ihe result of his speculation. The seeds were sown in his garden, and after being sown thoy were almost wholly destroyed by the house sparrows and green linnets. For a time he did not think that he would be able to save even seed for what waß sown. The stalks left grew to a height of about four foot, and wore cut the other day. Ho has a large sheaf, which he expects will yield fully i a bushel of well-dressed oats. So far as he can judge, the crop seems to be fully equal | to that which was sown. He also made an experiment with the brown Norwegian oats.

About a quarter of an acre was sown with this grain, and, like the other variety of oats, the crop was Ineorly destroyed by sparrows and linnets. So *thin were the plants made that Mr Taylor at one time intended to plough it up and put in some other crop. However, he let it alone, and the roots littered out to an enormous extent, many of the roots having sent up from forty to fifty separate stalks, each of which bore a good head of grain. The stalks grew to a height of fully 6 ft. From the quarter of an acre he has threshed out twenty-three bushels of welldresßed grain, equal to ninety-two bushels per acre