Show SUMMER FALLOW aids profitable for fall wheat potatoes and garden i anil shouler be worked only while molt mols except in Diol dikan kina me awe agricultural science needed in the growing of wheat consider summer fal fallowing losing pro able only for fall wheat potatoes aed ard gordon garden wheat must bo be grown here bare with 18 laches of raint sill writes albert weaver of et SL francs in the farm and homo home summer tillage ox of fallow li to tho the best beat method to moot meet talc this condition by thorough gummer till ull ago four to six inches of tho the eoa eone rainfall can bo stored in tho the subsoil Bub sub soll this wets down four to six foot fool in 14 favorable eutte seasons ons tho the rainfall boing boina abobo tho the and cie harvest an early ono one it la Is 1 possible I to store star nearly this amount of water in the use subsoil by intensive summer working tho the soil immediately after re moving tho the grain tho the soil should bo be worked only whilo while molet except in disking it not we wot by tho the lauer lallor part pad of july bottor better give up attempting to storo store tho the sub bub soil with sufficient moisture for fall oe eding in any case tho the hold should b bo a small ono one so that it may bo be quickly covered while aro ara right 1 I had 20 acres of fall wheat undo baro bare summer tillage methods in 1011 that mado made 11 bushels to tho the acre in 1912 1 I had 65 66 acres baro summer till 1111 ago fall wheat that yielded 1 16 bushels an aero acre and another 18 acres sum mor mer tilled yield 13 bushels an aero acre I 1 do not know of as good yields around hero on old ground either in 1911 or 1912 in 1910 asa payne had acres of baro summer tilled fall wheat that mado made 35 bushers to tho the acre and in 1909 J E payne had bad acres that yielded 37 bushels nn an acre the average yield from those these different holds fields wah 24 bushels an aero acre for the last four years all on old ground plo ing twice Is possibly as an good as any method for baro bare summer tillage I 1 double disk in april plow in may alay and again the latter part of july giving tho the ground some additional cultivation dy by reason of tho the being wet it freezes and loosens it up to take in the spring rains besides freezing die Int the boti soil particles with a good seedbed stored with moisture mols turo at seeding timo time 25 to U pounds ah pero of clean choice need Is to usually enough soud sed wheat should be selected from fields making heavy yields and ripening early some ol 01 our red turkey wheat seems to bays a run out and the yields aro am low under favorable conditions I 1 think deep seeding is to should bo be done between st SJ and october 1 it may be b to seed earlier than this get got well rooted and shou shoua tho the ground before vearly seeding puts th taj condition for growth spring to get got the ate st an and d to ripen early begins to cover V spring I 1 think it r thoroughly two or all weeds and te t ture it is bes becj shower I 1 hav last lant four years is us efio needed in the crowll gro any other crop I 1 bellel belfe ing al along ng the foregoing alii mado made very profitable in 0 our ur sect the country and the sooner our faaiu fa era adopt similar methods tho the better off they will be |