Show PREPARING FOR wheal much depends on method to B bc used and on season under irrigation gation plowing vina should preferably be done in fall followed by disk and harrow to con ser serve ve moisture the best preparation of land for wheat depends upon whether spring wheat or r winter wheat Is to bo be grown and whether dry farming famine or irrigation says the colorado farmer something will also depend upon season reason and tho the forwardness of the work for spring wheat under irrigation the plowing should preferably be done lu in tho the fall except on lands subject to plowing following tho the plow should come tho the disk and harrow this treatment may look unnecessary but the bettor better soil eoll and self soil moisture mols turo conditions resulting from such treatment pay the soil so BO treated la is compact and moist below and loose at alib surface white tho the soil loft left ns as tho the plow turns turna it avor to la more often dry and fluffy as deep as tho the furrow slice in the 1116 first instance there Is moisture enough lo 10 the crop and usually keela it growing some time in the second place the seed must bo irrigated up or lie and wait for a favorable avor ablo rain pall fall plowing may inny bo be deeper it properly managed than spring plowing deep plowing followed by proper treatment gives higher yields deep plowing to be most successful must be done sometime before planting in order to allow some weathering plowing which to any reason Is done immediately before planting d bo be shallow not over five inches fundor this condition it will give higher yields than deep plowing the land need not be ba plowed following such crops as sugar beets or potatoes in this case the land Is best disked and harrowed after the crop jo harvested ur vested as the no harvesting pro ceas works the deeply the only further baring treatment needed will be disking alling di harrowing and leveling spring wheat should be planted early winter wheat under irrigation greater yields aro are produced thedarl the earlier or the plowing the essential difference in preparing the seed aeed bed for from that of spring wheat Is that plowing for winter wheat especially bially if it follows another grain must be early it if plowing for winter wheat 1 which Is to be planted after grain or alfalfa can le io done in july or early in august so much the bettor better both winter and spring wheat do best on oil it a well compacted seed bed this la Is due to the fact that heavy lands tire are bettor better natural wheat lands than sandy ones ones there is also an advantage in having a well compacted well fined filled furrow slice A soil in such condition c 0 presents a much tetter feeding area for crop the small 0 or r feeding roots are neither bothered by clods or open air spaces thus they may como come in intimate contact with khz th soil oil particles tle the most favorable conditions for emp feeding and growth |