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Show CULTURE OF WINTER EMMER Where Irrigation Is Practiced Give Grain Good Soaking and Water. Land Before Planting. ' Improved winter Burner will grow anywhere that winter wheat can be produced, and it requires the same kind of soil and treatment. I advise the preparation of a good seed bed long enough before planting so it will become somewhat settled and compact. com-pact. Sow with a drill and in the west use a press drill if it is to be had, writes B. C. Buffum of Wyoming in Orange .Tudd Farmer. This grain has large stooling power, and to get a start with the new grain I 'advise planting at the rate of one bushel of 40 pounds per acre. Sow in September Septem-ber or October, so the grain will come up before freezing weather sets in. Where the season is short, sow earlier than where it Is long. If you irrigate, give the grain a good soaking before it goes into the winter, and the better plan is to irrigate irri-gate the land before the grain la planted. In the spring one or more good harrowings will help the crop. It will be ready to harvest late in June or early in July, and should be cut before It gets too ripe and dry. It may be threshed either from the field, or Btack. Do not be discouraged if it looks thin on the ground in the early spring. The best formation of the heads oc-currs oc-currs where the soil is rich and the plants have plenty of room. On good soils and with the right kind of treatment, treat-ment, you should get from SO to 100 or more bushels per acre. |
