Show fALL PLOWING I Is IMPORTANT Will Woodward of Upalco writes a ag rut follows My experience Is that that- fall plowing is the only system I have alsed ailed from 10 to 15 bushels more of wheat per acre from fall plow ploy ing lug It gives me a greater chance to plant early In the spring Generally Generally Gen Gen- there is enough moisture in inthe inthe the ground to bring the grain up without Irrigation We plowed our land last fall falland falland falland and planted 20 aces of wheat real early in the spring there was enough moisture to bring It up We Ve had one irrigation and threshed thresh thresh- ed bushels No moisture fell this season If we could have had one more we could have doubled mr cur crop and had much better rain If I had done spring plowing I dont don't think I would have harvest- harvest id d any grain with what water we had Two of my neighbors plowed this spring and only harvested part of a 0 crop and very poo shrunken wheat at that and the rest was not worth cutting and they had to Irrigate it upI upI up I think early wheat should be recommended recommended- to farmers In the Basin It is an earlier and hardier hard ier spring wheat than I have ever tried Hoping we will have enough moisture to plow this fall I re re- re- re main J. J A. A Olsen of Neola says We Wc annot over estimate the value of all especially a 0 seasor sensor T we have just passed through On the five acre tract of fall tan lowed ground the barley went 7 per acre On seven seyen acre acre cre f L shrift plowed I got goot 1 5 bushel r less than 23 bushels per per acre acre Mr Olsen considers that both of ground were about bout equa f fertility but he sa says s 's the sprint sprin loyed Toyed ground did not have quit quits s much water a au ai the fall he estimates because oJ of o oJie re ie fall plowing of the one pice t I produced more than twice a at luch per acre considering the fact that It had slightly more water than the spring plowed piece Henry Loranger of Cedarview date of August 30 writes s follows I r 1 just received a letter from ou asking my opinion about fall lowing I can say that last falls fall's plowing of 6 acres made me of cf wheat this year with one against 4 1 acres of spring lowing that I had to cut the rain for hay which was was' one tonYes tonYes tonYes ton Yes I always like to plow all allay alliy iy ay grain ground In the fall It it the spring work worle as well wells s s holds the moisture Oscar Nelson of Upalco believes there are some advantages and to fall faU plowing As he sites lack of and the trampling of the round by livestock after it has ecu een plowed and that it il is ary to re plow in the spring He Hc ites as advantages the fact that can be planted earlier In he spring and that tha you get high- high r r cere yields Horace Horac Allred of Roosevelt rom ron five years years ars experience esti- esti nates that fall plowing will double the yield as compared to pring plowing He says Answering your inquiry as to what I consider the difference in inthe inthe the he results obtained from certain crops raised on ground that had been plowed fall-plowed as against those raised on the same ground that had been bee spring Until about five years ago I had hadnot of plow fall-plow- not lot made a practice ing ng Usually I would have some iced feed on my stubble ground and in n waiting wailing to get this fed after ny ay fields were open for pasturing t would get too late to get the round 1 plowed so it was left un- un il 11 spring When spring came times elate flate ate some some Jut gut always with a lot of other I things to do it was generally t I late enough when the plowing as done With the spring winds hat W we seldom miss by the time lime done I had vc re had our plowing ost sst st all moi moisture ture that would have een necessary in bringing up the iraln ruin rain without irrigating As As soon as the grain was in we ve started irrigating and with the wind vind still blowing the surface soon dried and almost always a good of the surface would fake jakc and crack not only make malte maket it il t hard for the sprouted grain to jet et through but also the cracking the ground to soon dry jut gut and another Irrigation was needed right at a time after the early spring waters were gone and our rivers hadn't yet started d to come up so it always that the water could be had until your crop had suffered considerably Looking at it all around it did did- not seem to be be the right thing to todd todo do dd so I decided to try fall plowing plowing plowing plow plow- ing which I have been very well satisfied with and on my place with the of fall faU plowIng plowing plowing plow- plow Ing and lh the disadvantages of the spring plowing I believe I can get double the grain per acre fall plowed ground especially if ground is plowed good and de deep p pIn in the fall Another problem that fall plowing has solved for fOI me is g getting getting get get- t- t ting my manure out in the spring With the ground plowed and that much work out of the way I find finda a week or ten days time early carly to toha haul ha l manure So with stored water water wa wa- atel ter tel so we can always Irrigate for fall plowing and more people doing doing doing do do- ing their plowing in the fall each year I can picture seeing two grain stacks standing where one one used to stand Farmers we commend to you a consideration of the above experiences experiences experiences I of men who are farming COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT I |