| Show correspondence for the deseret news WHEAT GROWING GROi grol mG ir MR EDITOR most farm banners ers have found by experience that it if they put too much seed corn on an acre the be yield will be lighter than it if only the proper quantity were als all allowed to grow I 1 deem four quarts quartz of corn enough seed for an acre when the corn Is too thick the ears will be sm emall ally and many talks stalls will not have any these who are acquainted with gardening know that cabbages turnips onions ac do not grow urge nor produce well when they are too thick when the ground Is in good order plowed deep and well harrowed I 1 think one halt half bushel of wheat Is enough to seed sin n acrey acre and will produce more on one acre than a bushel will when wheat stands thin it does not net grow as tall as a w when hen sowed bowed thick but will have larger straws and biger heads beads with more and larger kernels kernell in them when wheat Is thin and on good well prepare prepared holly soi sol the heads beads will have bate from eighty to a hundred kernels and upward but when thick only from forty to fitly fifty then let wheat have room in proportion to its ts nature maturey as you do corn and other othen vegetation if the soll soil is not in a rood good condition I 1 admit that it requires more seed let the motto be what crops we do put iny int in do it a as it ought to be done then we can receive a greater profit from our labors the criterion ought to be who has done their work the besta best besl plowed the th deepest and harrowed the mellowest mel lowest care must be used not tf to plow when the ground li Is too wet for that makes the land lumpy lumny and hard hardy this Is too often done to the great injury of the soil there must be sufficient space allotted to each seed in t alread and thrive or a great number will ix bi come stunted sicken and dle die too much seed upon a piece of ground Is as injurious to the farmer as it Is to put too many cattle into a pasture it Is all upon the tle the same principle A G FELLOWS the principle above advocated that each kind of eed bcd seed reed should have hare the room and best adapted to its highest development Is doubtless correct but the quantity mut vary with the quality and condition of the soil for this reason it Is somewhat difficult to always determine the tile precise amount but in the present scarcity ot of food and abundance of plowed land it will pro probably bably babli be safer and more economical to err upon the bide aide of sowing wheat too thin rather than too thick as in that way there w will III lii be a greater yield to a given amount amoun lot of heedy beedy heed whether bowed broa brua broadcast beast or in drills EJ ed news |
