OATS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1247, 16 April 1880, Page 3

OATS.

We extract the following letter from a Ilia issue of the Invercargill new 3 : "Sir, —Some attention has beenattracted % a letter in the Qamara Mail recommending Chili a3 a likely market to relieve lb present L,'lat in oats. As one well nqnaintuil with the West Coast of South America, I wnulil remark that oats are liiuoat unknown there a3 feed, the males md horses of Chili and Peru being fed liiiotty on maize and barley. It is a work ci time to get the South American to alter ta customs, or to adopt any novelty, tonseqnently there would, I fear, be great iilcuity in placing the first shipments of His. Doubtless, in time, experience Mii show him that in any bat very hot Sin.ites the muscle-producing power of Us makes them a better feed for working lock than any other description of grain, at long before he could get educated to ■is the present depression wilt, I hope, 're passed away, and oat 3 will probably l ngnin at something like their normal ituo here. So, although at the moment a quite possible a speculative shipment •aright port (not Valparaiso)might pay, "I that handsomely, in ordinary times tai is a very doubtful margin in exMing to a country which grow 3 suSicient "li for itself and for Peru, and where I »a often seen barley sold at the shipping •ttaa low as la 6d per bushel.—Yours, t, L."