Show GETTING IN THE t GRAIN CROP the department of agriculture has sent out to its agents throughout the south suggestions for the proper handling of wheat and oats in this region where it is expected that the entire crop is to be fed on the farm and especially in neighborhoods where threshing machines are not readily available it is recommended om mended that both the wheat and oats should be either cut for hays hay or else tied into medium sized bundles to be fed in the straw if intended for hay bay both wheat and oats should be cut when the grain varies from the milk to the very soft dough stage at this time the stalks will be mostly green or just be binnig to show signs of ripening below after cutting they should be cured and handled exactly as any of the common grass hays under favorable conditions the hay will then have a bright green color if the cutting is delayed however until the grain is in the full dough stage the hay will be dry harband hard har dand and bleached and the feeding value diminished if it is intended to feed the grain in the straw the cuttin cutting 9 should be put off until the grain has reached the hard dougli dough stage and most of the stalks have taken on a yellow color under favorable weather conditions the grain will cure sufficiently for storage purposes in six or eight days if put up in carefully made in shocks of nine bundles each including one cap bundle near the coast where frequent rains are to be expected at this season grain should be put in small shocks containing only 6 bundles and left uncapped so that it will gry dry out quickly after a rain it is is unnecessary to tear down and spread these small shocks after rains as it sometimes is with larger ones the bundles of course should be shocked immediately in order to avoid the possibility si I 1 lity of loss from bad weather when the crop is grown not for feeding purposes but for sale or for seed the cutting should be postponed til further until the grain has passed the hard dough stage if it is permitted to become dead ripe however the qu quality is not so good and the loss from shattering considerable where the self binder can not be used the cutting may be done a little earlier than otherwise the grain shocked in the manner already mentioned should be left in the field until it is thoroughly cured and then threshed wilhoit wit hoit delay if no threshing machine is available at once the grain should be either stacked or stored in a barn during the interval on small farms where storage space is not nol abundant it will probably pay the farmer to sell the grain as soon as it is threshed with the exercise ofa of a little tl operation cooperation co he may arrange with the neighbors to make up a sufficient quantity to ship out as a carload if this is i freight car can call be at from the far farmers loaded S is is important to remijo wago ever that the car should sa er ed without delay iri ill avoid 0 and oats demurrage should no not charge char be 11 b 31 to the same car cara ull sol nece necessary asar V it ments of t this is kind S ix c handled to a van market in the case of oats it 4 possible to dispose busly of the ra crop by s 14 to grain br broks akers dealers in in nearby to towru a 0 this is is done how however great importance to everi i lff oats oafs cleaned and of 41 quality one hundred hundres bags are probably the tac wac is factory when these nion ed into another state theis are law lr requires quires that the net of grain in the bags be h w upon thern them each eacho baka ba S contain the quantity in ty by the marks on the ou bufi ts fd is is if the bags are marked pounds they should co pounds of grain actual |