A variety of oats that promises to turn the poor oats years into good ones will be grown by a few farmers in every county of Iowa in 1946, and if the carefully laid plan of producing seed works out satisfactorily, then it should be in many Iowa farmers’ fields by 1947.

When we planned our cattle feeding tests in the fall of 1944 at the Iowa Station we did not know that Iowa would have some soft corn this year. But these tests point the way for good gains and satisfactory finish with corn silage and a limited amount of shelled corn. This test was made with medium to good grade native steers.

Good farmers for years have considered the manure produced on their farms a valuable fertilizer and many carefully conducted experiments have shown that these farmers have been right.

What to do with the land that is so hilly and steep that it cannot be farmed in the usual way is a problem on many Iowa farms. We have been trying to get an answer to this problem in a joint research project of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and Soil Conservation Service of the USDA.