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Show PEST OF VOLUNTEER GRAIN Evil May B Greatly Minimized by Uaing Rotation Given Herewith Corn la Beat Crop. The extent to w hich volunteer grain grow a In dry areaa la perplexing to the farmer who haa In mind the rotation rota-tion of crop upon hla farm, in went-eru went-eru arena where winter wheat only li grown the problem la eaHy. lly tho aymein followed the farmer summer-fallowed summer-fallowed one year and the next year growa wheat. While ho la aummer-fallowing aummer-fallowing his laud he has tile chance to destroy much grain that Would otherwise oth-erwise give him trouhliv Hut in many areaa even In the dry country, aoine rotation Is wanted. How, then, can the farmer keep down the peat of volunteer vol-unteer grain that If prciscnt will destroy de-stroy the purity of hla grain and cause It to mix. In aotno Instanrea to a vexatioua extent. This evil will be greatly minimized by the following rotation: Summer fallow one year, grain; aome cultivated cultivat-ed crop, grain. Thla rotation would only call for the real cummer-fallow one year In four. Two yeara would b devoted to cleaning the land, that Is the year that It was fallow and the year that the cultivated crop was grown. Thus there would ba three crops taken from the ground In four years. Hy this system the land ought to be kept free from volunteer grain and Ibo from weeds. The lumnior fallow nhouVJ take away everything that is offensive tho year that it was being done, and the cultivated crop would do the same, while it was being grown, that Is to say. If the farmer did his duty toward it. The cultivated crop will Include corn, potatoes, beans nnd Held roots and possibly puis. 1'ens, however, may not pay for such cultivation. That has yet to be proved. Of these crops corn will be away beyond all comparison compar-ison the nioHt Important, as it will be grown over wide anas. It is the easl-cM easl-cM of theso crops to grow and Is also the surest ei ( pt In the ca.se of potatoes. pota-toes. It Is also the most needed, as its fodder Is wanted on every farm In the diy area. If alfalfa can be Introduced Into the rotation in a somewhat regular way It will still further aid In safeguard lug the cleaning of the land. If alfalfa occupied the ground for a term of years, say three or four, the volunteer grain would perish. How long such grain would live In the ground would depend cbl lly on the umount of moisture mois-ture In the soil, but It U about certain that ordinary grain would not retain vitality longer In eros where tho moisture la enough to grow annual crops of grain. Some gain will probably result frora disking the ground right away after harvest. Of course should the weather weath-er continue dry up fo harvest but little lit-tle of the grain would sprout. Hut should any considerable amount of rain fall before growth would eensa much of the volunteer grain would sprout and It would then be burled with the plow. |