Show WHEAT SOWN FOR BIG YIELDS summer fallow ng done in june no only kills many weeds but saves mo sture for future in growing my dry land crop ol 01 forty eight bushels to the acre the past season the summer fallowing was don done the fore part ot of june the year ous experience has taught us that this is the best time as it not only kills the many weeds needs but conserves the moisture thereby storing it for fu ture use writes george E owen in denver field and farm my dry land tract has been farmed tor for nine bears eare but by the alternating method only eighty acres out of the one hundred and sixty acres are cropped each year many have predicted that in a few years the strength ot of the soil would run out and that it would have to be left tor for a number ot of years so as to regain its former productiveness I 1 find however that the land rather than diminishing Is gradually gaining in productiveness the soli soil la is a clay loam and has a gradual slope to the south the first year it was farmed the sod was broken out to a depth of four inches each succeeding year it is plowed two inches deeper so as to have the subsoil on top after plow ing the ground Is then harrowed so as to even it and conserve all the mols ture there have been times when the weed seed tailed failed to come up before plowing it had to be then disked to kill the weeds it if they had been left alone it would have been as hard on the ground as it if a crop of wheat had been raised the seeding la Is done about the middle of september the drill used Is a disk press which sows from twenty seven to thirty pounds to the acre the kind of seed Is the red russian wheat raised on irrigated land may be sown on dry land by seeding more to the acre the past year seventy six acres yielded 2642 2 bushels of high tested wheat twenty seven pounds of wheat was sown to each acre when thin sown the wheat plants have more room tor for spooling sto oling and produce larger heads the room in n between the rows provides the moisture for the growing grain |