Show MAKING AN IDEAL SEED BED for wheat and other small grains soil should be mellow only little deeper than planted by anor A M TEN EYCK the seed bed refers to the tilled soil 19 deep as may be plowed this may be from three to twelve or even eighteen inches when the subsoil plow Is used in connection with the stirring plow the lieal li eal seed bed however for seeding wheat other small grains alfalfa etc should be loose or mel low only a little deeper than the seed Is planted delow the depth a which the seed Is deposited in the soil the seed bed must be well pulverized but firm and well settled the furrow slices making a good union with the subsoil below the seed bed may be prepared by cultivating with different implements the disk harrow may be the best am clement to use after fall plowing or early in the spring several weeks before seeding dut surface cultivation just before seeding should usually be accomplished with some implement which does not cultivate so deep as the disk harrow the mellow soil produced by culta Is the mulch which has to do with the conservation of the soil moisture the soil mulch may be 0 three inches in when the ground Is being finally prepared tor seeding wheat or other small seeds again we often weight the spike tooth harrows so as to make them stir deeper and leave the ground in a more furrowed condition than may usually result from light harrowing |