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Show PREPARE FOR WINTER WHEAT Land Should Be Plowed Early and i Harrowed Soon After Mellow Soil Prevents Evaporation. Oats and barley stubble, land Intended In-tended for winter grain and to be seeded to grass should be plowed early and harrowed soon after plowing, plow-ing, so the ground can settle. Heavy land should be plowed with three horses. We use the sulky -plow set to cut an even furrow and a good depth. Harrow and roll before the plowed ground dries out. A fine, mellow mel-low top soil will prevent evaporation of moisture, and it can be put in nice order for drilling with a second or third working with the spring-tooth harrow and roller, says a writer in an exchange. Land plowed just before sowing is too spongy; it should be plowed at least two weeks before the grain Is drilled. Expert grain farmers plow immediately after the barley or oats is harvested, and then harrow and roll. When oats or barley precede a crop of winter wheat the land is much dryer than a properly managed summer sum-mer fallow, and if the season should be dry and hot, it is difficult to get Buch a land mellow and moist enough for germination of grain. If the barnyard manure is to be spread over the field, it will pay to hire a spreader, for the manure can be spread so much better, as the spreader cuts the manure fine and spreads an even and a regular coat over the entire ground. Two active men with a two-horse spreader will haul and spread a large pile of manure ma-nure in a day. The regular price for the use of a spreader is 50 cents per day. If a spreader cannot be had, haul and spread direct from wagon or cart. The manure spread one day should be harrowed into the ground the next; there is no loss of plant food from the manure drying from action of sun and wind. Spread twelve two-horse two-horse wagon loads of rotted manure and drill in the grain in with 250 pounds of a good animal bone fertilizer fertil-izer to the acre. The manure and fertilizer fer-tilizer will give a larger yield of grain and a better quality of straw than either manure or fertilizer used alone. |