| Show WHEAT CULTURE the instructive experience of a southern ohio odilo agriculturist in southern ohio wherever the land is in any thing g like reasonable fertility there is no trouble rouble as a rule about raising a good wheat crop provided the plants c can it it be carried over the winter with sufficient vitality early so sowing iilo is subject to total ruin by drought ana and fly one or both late sowing does not give time enough for the young youner wheat pa plants ants to get sufficient growth at and I 1 d vigor to stand our terrible winters of freezing 0 and thawing with th the e frequent almost total absence of snow were we able to get out our wheat fields up to the first of april ivi with th it a good stand of vigorous wheat plants wheat growing 0 would be ft a matter of as much certa certainty pity as corn groats culture this being the case it is not so much a it mattor of phosphates to make the grain as one of finding 0 how to get the best and most vigorous fall growth with roots running deep into the soil find and well avell matted together in as is thorough and complete it a manner its as possible the whole theo theory iwand and practice of wheat culture t for that matter in this feln region I 1 i on is is in having haing r the land in good fertility well drained and then get the greatest possible fall growth in the shortest possible til lic how is this to bo be done what kind of culture and wh what at kind of fertilizers will produce the best ir growth and the ila handiest hardiest har diest wheat plants in in the shortest time le leaving abing out doroug drought n lit and the fly 1 l or the die hessian fly tile the fall trea treatment ament is plain enough but the hessian lly fly is a queer chap last year I 1 put in about forty acres of wheat commencing september 11 im ard 1 lini finishing shing I 1 october 6 about half of the crop being drilled lit in standing corn abe fira lii at piece sown own was wheat al t stubble put lit in with a two horse drill grund ground in most excellent condition and half of the seed six and one fourth bushels to 10 acres was sowed bowed one way of tile the field and tile the other six and one fourth bushels was sowed bowed across this no fly was seen in this piece the next piece of about five acres was oats stubble sowed bowed in good condition the fly did not trouble this the third piece of about twelve acres was drilled in st standing andino corn in the last week of september and literally eaten up tip by the fly abo about ut the first of november we cross drilled about half of this piece and alid this portion of the field made a fair crop tile the portion not sowed bowed over was almo almot almost t a total failure the first week in october we sowed bowed tile remainder ma ima bainder inder and this the fly did not trouble our wheat all made a nice fall growth crowth except tile the piece eaten caten up by the ac fly fly especially the first sow SON n but the winter injured it so badly that about six acres were seeded to oats and the yielded two hundred and fifty bushels less than seven bushels to the acre the trouble all came from winter killing except what damage age 0 was done by the fly we had an unprecedented amount of rain during the latter part of winter so that wheal as well as grass and clover wa was literally drowned lit in places where crops hall had ne never 1 ver suffered f from boiu wet before to recapitulate wheat culture in this section all or nearly all depends upon e getting gettin the wheat plants wintered much like wintering a lot of late fall pigs pig s if spring finds them healthy and vi vigorous Orous all right if poor and mangy all wrong g if spring finds wheat healthy and vi r olous with a c good stand we ave are ro reasonably sure of a r good crop consequently the whole matter almost 11 is in getting the best growth in the shortest possible time arld and this with good drainage is the end of the law in wheat cullura cull cul turc cor co ohio Fl farmer armer 0 41 |
