Show THE WHEAT WINTER Conditi onit ravo to itte comin coming oat lei in the spring under favo favorable conditions the wheat root endures the lie ho te verest cold with corn com little injury especially it if the ground is covered oven even slightly with snow it is not koniuch so much that snow 1 cepa out tile the severest cold through throng 1 I t a light CO vering covering of enow col coli cold I penetrates ely readily but it probably is enough to prevent freezing of the ilia soil down to tho extremities of tho the wheat roots that cuts off tho the supply of moisture which even in winter the wheat root must furnish tho the leif leaf to that lost by evaporation deep freezing when there is ia no snow on oil tile the ground turns the giaves brown blowing that the root w is locked yi ibi frost ro fo that it can no longer supply tile the moisture required cut but tr if snow enow touches ton the leaf eat tile evaporation ia from the snow rather than from ahr th plant after tho ilia severest cold when snow enow has covacic covered 1 l the ilia wheat the leaf comes canies out alnio sit as bright a n green aa it wms was in eat eaily ly tall much depends on tho the condition of tile soil in enabling I 1 in winter wheat to come out ont whole iu in ill spring says mys american Ameri Cant cultivator authority ant Alit hority for tho ilia for foregoing frequently too wet hol is inott anost injurious but bilt the so soil i I 1 e especially sp ci I 1 ily in cheru there is little snow or on high exposed places where snow is blown tio 6 n ou olf by winds may easily bo be too dry as well as aa too wet on the wind swept knoch the soil dries out quickly and often freezes to gibat gi eat depth no possible fall growth of top ton can call save ilia soil from freezing below the lowest wheat roots then the more top the plant lias has made mad the worse it suffers because from the alie numerous leaves a g greater cater evaporation of moisture takes place it is for aliis reason ai 1 9 much as any other that low lov clay lands sheltered from winds are bt bet for wheat farmers say the cla clay y soil holls the roots better it is not eliat exactly the clay holds i nore laore ad thus docs not freeze so deeply but land f for or N wheat ile it must not lot hold stagnant gatei near the surface if tho water so fills the hoil boil that it decomas becomes ice ice its alternate freezing and thawing snap the wheat loots and winter I lilla iiii the ilia plant this is not to be con confounded funneled with the overflow of surplus water in very wet seasons reasons v hen there is a constant outlet by from beneath that IS is nearly always beneficial beneC cul soil for wheat should be left in the fall as compact as possible if tho ilia soil boil bo be clay the f fall all rains will compact t the surface forming 1 a I crust over it this crust in tile the tall fall is helpful even if it seems too haril hard to allow best growth of the wheat it excludes the water that would only malo make tho the soil spongy after every winter this crust frust will disappear by alternate freezing and or if a new crust has formed by spring rains it may then b harrowed with vath advantage fall harrowing of wheat or any stirring of the soil except as 03 may bo be needed to remove standing water vater is alwa 3 an injury to the crop |