Show county agents column good summer fallow important farmers who are intending to plant fall grain should be busy starting their summer fallow A summer fallow plowed plon ed before may in fit our region should sive give art an increase of from three to five bushels ot of wheat per acre acie during the past two years most farmers have plowed their summer fallow rather early hill but there are still a number who are plowing too late tile essential good that conies canies from early summer fal allow is in the chance of obtaining more available nitrogen for or the new crop summer fallow land should bo be left as near nearly in tile the rough as possible weeding should only be done where it 14 necessary to kill the weeds seeds farmers make a mistake in leveling and ciul in ili smoothing off their land tor for summer fallow allow many 0 of the irrigation farmers in ili easl easi millard county bounty could very well afford to take some of the ideal ground and plow it early keep the weeds front from growing crowing and then plant to tall fall wheat Nl icat there is usually enough irrigation hater ater going down our streams sti earns in the late fall all to give this land a good irrigation fall grain planted on irrigated land will normally yield from 10 to 15 bushels bucheli per acre more than spring planted wheat weed control profitable some farmers have from I 1 to 5 acres or oi even more land infested with wild morning glory or an all occasional cas ional lorial patch of white top an ali early plowing with weekly throughout the coming season will do much toward eradicating these weeds for every acre 0 of weeds so controlled tile the tanner farmer will earn 5 units under the soil conservation program we encourage far tanners to take advantage of the soil conservation program and start stall a clean cultivation practice of our noxious weed need infested ian land d eradication of noxious weeds is important alst 1st because the farmer can call lie paid for leining cleaning up ills own weeds 2nd and it if the weeds are growing on oil liis ills tarin farm they are liis his weeds and they are aie equivalent to a gage on oil his property 3rd ard no man can call grow weeds seeds at a profit because there is no market for them ath a weed eed patch that has haa been well cuy city for two years will eradicate the he weeds and will leave the soil in such inch a condition that an all increased anci eased field bield of farm crops crop will be realized some farmers who have partly infested morning glory fields felds can take about 11 i of the area and cultivate it for about two to bears ears and then re seed eed back to alfalfa and produce as much on oil the new lie stand as they will get et from the rest reit of the farm |