Show I WINTER WHEAT ON DRY LAND OneHalf Amount of Seed Required for Irrigated Lands Answers for Dry Farming Field and Farm says that onehalf tho amount of seed required for Irrigated Irri-gated land will do in dry farming adding add-ing that 35 pounds to the acrji Is all sufficient in Colorado and that In one Instance at least G2 bushels of good wheat to the acrq was grown In this way last season This seems to us pretty thin seeding seed-ing but we do know that where there Is lack of moisture it will not do to I i sow too thickly and as weeds take more moisture than grain It just will not do to tolerate weeds at all In dry farming A number of new settlers In Montana Mon-tana have complained to us that their crops tho present season would have been much better one says as good again had they not listened to the old settlers and seeded lightly In this particular season or last the new settler may be right for most ol these complaints come from men who admit that the rainfall has been much greater than usual the past two or three years With the regulation dry j Montana seasons however we look for I more converts to thin seeding We shall be glad to hear from some of the experienced upon this phase of the I subject Dakota Farmer |