Show PREPARING FOR wheal much depends on method to be used and on season under plowing should preferably be bonc in fall followed by disk and harrow to con serve moisture the best preparation of land for wheat depends upon whether spring wheat or winter wheat Is to be growth and whether dry farming or alon baya the colorado farmer some thins will also depend upon season and the forwardness of the work for spring wheat under irriger lion the plowing should preferably bedone in the fall except on lands subject to plowing following the plow should come the disk and harrow this treatment may look unnecessary but the better soil and soli moisture mois turo conditions resulting from such treatment pay the soil eo treated Is corn pact and moist below and loose at the surface while the soil left as the plow turns it over Is more often dry and fluffy as deep as the furrow slice in the first instance there la moisture enough present to start the crop ant usually keep it growing some time in the second place the seed must ba irrigated up or lie and wait tor favorable rain fall plowing may 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 should be shallow not over five inches under this condition it will give higher yields than deep plowing the land need not be plowed following such crops as sugar beets or potatoes in this case the land Is best disked and harrowed after the chopi a larvester lar vested as the harvesting process works the sil deeply the only further spring treatment needed will be disking harrowing and leveling spring wheat should be planted early winter wheat under irrigation greater yields are produced the eari ter the plowing the essential difference in preparing the seed bed for winter from that of spring wheat Is that plowing for winter wheat especially it it follows another grain must be early it plowing tor winter wheat which is to be planted after grain or alfalfa can be done in july or early in august so much the better both w inter and spring wheat do best on a well compacted seed bed this is due to the tact that heavy lands are better natural wheat lands than sandy ones there is also an advantage in having a well compacted well fined furrow slice A soil in such condition presents a much better feed ing area tor crop the small or feeding roots are neither bothered by clods or open air spaces thus they may come in intimate contact with th soil particles the most favorable conditions tor crop feeding and growth |