Farmers donated barley, wheat, oats, timber, sheep and cattle to be sold for the fund, one town built and sold a house and the racehorse La Loire made $18,000 in a raffle.
The larvae feed on various grasses including wild oats Avena, Agrostis, Poa, Cynodon dactylon and Chasmanthium latifolia.
Avena species, including cultivated oats, are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Rustic Shoulder-knot and Setaceous Hebrew Character.
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"Sowing wild oats" is a phrase used since at least the 16th century; it appears in a 1542 tract by Thomas Beccon, a Protestant clergyman from Norfolk.
At its peak it produced oatmeal, bruised oats and hashed oats for an area extending from Montrose in the south to Barras and Catterline in the north and inland to Laurencekirk and Fordoun.
R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (born 1916), founder of the America First Committee, CEO of Quaker Oats; and United States Ambassador to Norway, 1984–1989
The larvae feed upon more than forty different species of plants including but not limited to; Alfalfa, Aster, Blueberry, Chickweed, Clover, Corn, Dock, Flax, Goldenrod, miscellaneous garden vegetables, Grasses, Mullein, Oats, Raspberry, Rye, Tobacco, and Wheat.
Master Oats spent his retirement at the home of Lord Leigh near Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, where he was reportedly popular with the villagers.
Mornflake Oats is the official shirt sponsor of Crewe Alexandra Football Club.
The parish is described as partly upland and partly fen, on which chief crops grown were wheat, oats, barley, turnips and mangolds.
Apart from a few otherwise very bleak places (such as Jöhstadt, Satzungen, Kuhnheyde, Neudorf, Joh. Georgenstadt, Wiesenthal etc.) where potatoes, cabbages, turnips and oats are grown (albeit the latter hardly ripens but is at least used to produce the necessary straw for cattle), not a single potato grows, let alone a kernel of corn.
The company holds a Scott's Porage Oats Food & Drink Fair at the St Andrews Festival in November each year at the Byre Theatre.
Sowans, is a Scottish dish made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling
Wild Oats Markets partnered with Pathmark Stores beginning in February 2007 when Pathmark added Wild Oats brand private-label goods to all of its 141 northeast U.S. stores.