The fall wheat follows hard upon the haying, and close upon the fall wheat comes the barley, then the oats and the rest of the spring grain.
That was one way to the mill, the way the farmers took with their grist or their oats for old Charley Boyle to grind.
He did not get out of the tilbury; the ostler who brought the oats suddenly stooped down and examined the left wheel.
About the same time another dispute arose about the cornage, commonly called noutgeld, and serjeant oats or bailiff corn throughout the barony of Westmorland.
He kept his word, and for the next few weeks toiled with determined energy among the tall white oats and the coppery ears of wheat.
The trial would now be beginning, and it was time the binders were driven into his grain; the oats would be ripe, and his neighbors would pick up all the Ontario hands who reached the settlement.
The oats began to show a silvery gleam as they swayed in the strong light; the wheat was changing color, and there were warm coppery gleams among the heavy ears; horses and cattle sought the poplars' shade.
Upon my inquiry whether dinner could be afforded here for horse and man, he slid lazily off his perch with the remark: “Plenty oats an’ hay; no corn.
Wheat and oatsproduce well, and corn yields a fair harvest.
One of them is that the man who does not sow his wild oats before marriage will sow them afterwards, with a whirlwind for the reaping.
There was yet a fertile strip of time wherein to sow my last handful of the wildoats of youth.
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time,--the younger the better.
Well, he doesn't get oats at my expense until he's ready to race,' said I.
I had two or three platers of my own that made their oats money and a little more, and these I raced on the St. Louis track, pulling down a purse once in a while, and getting second money often enough to keep me in coffee and sinkers.
My friend called him Star Boarder, because he'd been eating circus oats and hay for two years without ever doing a lick of work to pay for his fodder.
Oats or corn may also be used, but they are not available always and pebbles usually are.
When the cattle were exposed to all the blasts of winter, it took all the corn and oats that could be stuffed into them to prevent actual starvation.
No farmer can afford to raise corn and oats and hay to sell.
A shell tore up the little step at the headquarters cottage and ripped bags of oats as with a knife.
There would be no longer any use for horses, and if the railways extended the species would become extinct, and therefore oats and hay would become unsalable.
Do you or I or any one know How oats and beans and barley grow?
Oats and wheat and barley grows, You and I and every one knows Where oats and wheat and barley grows.
Oats and beans and barley grows Not so fine as the farmer sows, You nor I nor nobody knows Oats and beans and barley grows.
Oats and beans and barley corn, Oats and beans and barley corn; You and I and nobody else, But oats and beans and barley corn.
Oats and beans and barley grow, You and I and every one know; You and I and every one know That oats and beans and barley grow.
The Christmas-tree is simply a little sheaf of oats or wheat tied to the top of a small spruce-fir.
The Oats are whitening apace, and quiver, each individual grain on its light stem, as they hang like rain-drops in the air.
He thrust his hand into his trousers-pocket, and brought out eagerly a crumpled-up piece of paper, but as he did so a number of oats flew out all over the room.
Oats are the predominant crop, barley is grown (mostly for the distilleries), but the wheat acreage is trifling.
Vast stretches of golden grain extended far up the ridges, whose meadows and oats fields bounded in some places by rail fences made a charming picture.
The blue green of the oats with the brighter green of meadows, blending imperceptibly together, made a rare picture enhanced by the blue haze of distance.
At our feet lay the valley interspersed with villages, homes and vast stretches of corn, oats and wheat, all clothed in that blue filmy veil making all appear like a rich garden of various emerald tints.
To those who all their lives have been accustomed to fields of wheat, oatsand corn the almost interminable rows of beets, beans, sweet potatoes and melons are very interesting.
But kindness is very catching, and at the Farm everybody was kind, from the House People to the big gray horses in the barn, which let the chickens pick up oats from between their powerful hoofs, without ever frightening them by moving.
The miller said they were mischievous birds, and ate so many oats that he had to sow his field twice over.
But by hard work he got this field also planted with oats in good time.
And his labor was not in vain, for in the fields where the corn and the oats and the rye were growing the weeds almost disappeared.
As the oats were all gone and could never be gotten back, the colt concluded there was no use in fretting any more about them.
In a little while the farmer passed through the stable, and poured out six quarts of oats for each horse.
Would you let him rest and give him some water to drink and some nice hay and oats to eat, or would you strike him hard with a whip to make him go faster?
If you should whip him he would act as though he were not tired at all, but do you think the whip would make him strong, as rest and hay and oats would?
And with her oats he mixed some powder, fetching it from his saddle-bags.
Here's to the oats with the blackstone on the board!
The winter wheat was well enough, being sturdy and strong-sided; but the spring wheat and the barley and the oats were overrun by ill weeds growing faster.
Therefore, seeing things to be bad, and his master involved in trouble, what did this horse do but start for the ease and comfort of Plover's Barrows, and the plentiful ration of oats abiding in his own manger.
Get some oats for these good men's horses, for they must speed back again as fast as they came.
