Show SUMMER FALLOW AIDS ADS profitable for fall wheat meat pota toes and garden boll should pe pa worked only whilo moist except in disking Disk ingMore more agricultural science needed in the growing of wheat consider summer fallowing following fal lowing profit able only tor for fall wheat potatoes potato and d garden wheat must bo be grown here with 18 inches of rainfall writes albert alber weaver of st francis kan itan in tile farm and homo home summer tillage or fallow Is the best method to meet this condition by thorough summer till ugo four to six elx inches of tho the seasons soa Bons rainfall can ho be stored in tho the subsoil this wets down four to six feet in favorable seasons tho the rainfall being above tho average and the harvest an early one it Is possible to store nearly this amount of water in tho the subsoil by intensive summer tillage working the soil immediately after removing tho grain tho the soll soli should to be corned only while except in disking it if not wet by the latter part of july bettor better give up attempting to store the subsoil with sufficient moisture for fall all seeding in any case the flold field should bo be a email on one 1 e so that it may b bo quickly covered while conditions are aio right I 1 had 20 acres of fall wheat under bare summer tillage methods in 1111 that made 11 bushels to the aero acre in 1912 1 I had 65 acres baro summer tillage fall wheat that yielded 15 bushels an acre and another 48 acres summer tilled yield 12 bushels an acre I 1 do not mot know of as good yields around hero bero on old ground either la in 1911 or 1912 in idio asa payne hild had ISO acres of bare summer tilled fall wheat that made 35 bushela to the acre and to in 1909 J E payne had acres that yielded 37 bushels an acre the average yield from the chesti different fields was 24 bushels an acre for the tb last four years all on old ground plowing twice to is possibly as good ats an any method tor for bare summer tillage I 1 double disk in april plow in ray blay and again the latter part of july giving the ground some additional cult lva tion by reason of tho the subsoil being wet w 61 it freezes and loosens it up to take IV ID the spring rains besides freezing dla dis int the soil boll particles with a good seedbed stored witti moisture at seeding time 26 25 to 90 30 pounds an acre of clean choice seed Is usually enough seed wheat should be selected from fields making heavy yields and ripening early some of our red turkey wheat seems to have ru run n out yields aro are low even under favorable conditions I 1 think deep seeding Is best and should be done between september 15 and october 1 it may be even better to seed earlier than this wheat should get well rooted and should fairly cover the ground before winter sets in early seeding puts the crop in be bosl 11 condition for growth early in th tha spring to get the start of tho the weeds a and n d to ripen early As soon as wheat begins to cover the ground lh 0 the spring I 1 think it should be harrowed thoroughly two or moro more times to kill all weeds and to conserve the moisture it Js Is best to do this after a shower I 1 have harrowed wheat the last four years with good results there Is more agricultural science needed in the growing of wheat than any other crop I 1 believe belleve wheat growing along the foregoing lines can be made very profitable in our section of the country and the sooner our farmers adopt similar methods the better off they will be |