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VOL. LXVI
INDIANAPOLIS, SEPT. 30, 1911.
NO. 39
THE BIG WHEAT GROWERS.
MANY    INDIANA    FARMERS
HOW IT IS DONE.
TELL
GROW THIRTY TO FIFTY BUSHELS
PER ACRE.
OVER 43 BUS. WHEAT  PER ACRE,
lst.    I  plowed   the   ground  about   7
inches deep.
2d.      Every*       morning 	
wliile the ground was
damp I harrow up all I
have plowed the day before, and my ground was
right fine then.
3. Just before I drilled
I took the disc harrow
and went over it shallow,
just enough so the drill
would put the seed in
even.
4th. I drilled the seed
in about two inches deep.
5th. I used a fanning
mill and graded all the
seed and just drilled in
the large wheat berries.
I think if I    had  used
300 pounds     of    fertilizer
\>er acre I would have had
50 bushels to the acre.
W.   D.   Littlejohn.
Xewton Co., Ind.
on it before it grows the sprouts which
are very tender may not be able to get
up. I sow one bushel and one-half per
acre.
Corn Ground in Wheat.
In sowing corn ground to wheat I
cut all the corn that can be cut up, as
the extra wheat I raise to the acre
more will pay for the cutting of the
corn,   besides   it   Is   much   easier   way
plowing, good pulverizing and plenty
of fertilizer with the pure plump seed
will insure good results. Think it best
to sow after the middle of September,
but not too late.
Mrs.   B.   F.   Nash.
Miami Co., Ind.
LEGUME   IN THE  ROTATION'S.
The two most essential things is good
ground and good seed.     Wheat sowed
BREAKS  THE  GROUND
DEEP.
My method of wheat
growing is, to break the
ground early, and as deep
as possible; then by rolling, harrowing, dragging
and If necessary, disking,
1 make as fine and firm
seed bed as I can. Then
to avoid the fly, as much
as possible, I sow the first
half of October.
Run Through the Fanning
Mill.
I sow the best selected
seed I can get after it has been run
'hrough the fanning mill, and all the
small grains have been screened out. I
sow clover with it. I keep enough live
stock to eat all the feed I can grow, al-
10 buy considerable every year.
By using plenty of bedding I make
and save all the manure I can, which I
aPPly, where I think it is needed most.
1 have used but very little fertilizer,
hat think it will pay big to do so, es-
Pecially if one knows what his soil
tie-ils. Helmer Holmes.
Greene Co.. Ind.
to do but I think it pays. Plow your
ground good and you have very little
trouble getting it In condition. Wa
work it down with the harrow and
roller till we have a loose seed bed
on top and solid enough underneath
that the horses won't sink in over their
hoofs.
Grading and Sowing.    .
Before  sowing  our    wheat we clean
         and  grade it  very  closely,
sowing    only the    biggest
and plumpest grains.
The fanning mill I
think indispensable in the
growing of small grains.
I aim to sow my wheat
about the last week in
September and the first
week in October, sowing
the poorest ground first
and  the richest last.
O.  C.  Mc.
State Fair Exhibit of the Indiana State Binder Twine Factory, at Michigan City.
DEEP   PLOWING   NECESSARY.
I will say In regard to sowing wheat,
there are several things to do in order
''■ Ket a good crop. Plow as early
ds Possible at a depth of seven to eight
nches, then drag to get the ground
'"cl, then harrow and roll, interchang-
n8 from one to the other until a per-
*_ct seed bed is made, with a loose top
about two or three inches.
Clean, Plump Seed.
After having    cleaned    the seed  by
inning through a good fanning mill to
*  out  the  small  and   weak   grains,
r'e|i seed,  etc.,  sow  from one  to two
ches deep.      it must not be too deep
and much better. Sowing in standing
corn one should run a wheel or cultivator ahead of the drill. Sow two bushes to the acre.
Top Dress.
After sowing top dress the .wheat
with a dressing of chaff or manure.
Last year 1910 I top dressed 20 acres
which made 30 bushels to the acre of
good sixty pound wheat. My whole
crop of* 90 acres averaged 21 bushels
to the acre, when all the wheat around
me was very poor. W. N. Main.
Shelby Co., Ind.
MANURED WITH SPREADER.
We sow our oats ground to wheat,
and cover ground with manure taken
from an old straw shed, which was very!
good; put it on with spreader. Plowed
from August 20th to September lst.
Plowed just what we could drag before quitting time each day, so as not
to lose moisture, when done—plowing,
dragging and harrowing. Sow with
disc drill about 20th of September. We
sow a bushel and one-half to two bushels, usually 1 % bushels per acre. We
use 200 pounds of fertilizer, "grain
grower," seems to be the thing for our
clay  land.      We   use  nothing  but   full
if there should be a hard rain fall' plump grains for seed.     We think deep
on clover sod gives the best results in
this   locality.
The worst objection to following
clover with wheat is that the wheat
grows so rank and the straw gets so
long it frequently falls down in places,
causing considerable trouble and loss in
harvesting, but even with the loss that
may aecure in this way, we get more
wheat per acre on clover sod than by
following any other crop.
Wheat following oats frequently gives
a fair yield but I have yet to see the
first good field of wheat raised by sowing wheat in the corn, and especially
after the field has been in corn two
years or more.
Legumes iii the Rotations.
Rotation of crops including the legumes I think absolutely necessary to
obtain maximum yields. I would advise plowing under all the leguminous
crops your stock won't consume.
In preparing our soil for the wheat
crop we plow it in August and September. I have raised as good wheat on
ground plowed in September as that
plowed the first of August.
Must Plow Deep.
We plow from 6 to 8 inches deep for
wheat.     This is sometimes very difficult
ONE   CROP   HELPS
GROW ANOTHER
I proceed on the theory
that one crop will help
grow the succeeding one
if the proper rotation is
carried out. Some years
ago a seed firm followed
the growing of onion sets
on our farm, and this
crop followed by wheat
always seemed to me to
be a good rotation, as we
always raised a splendid
crop of wheat.
Five years ago I commenced to grow tobacco
and this crop I always
followed with wheat with
even better results than
the onion sets, the yield
being generally from 25
to 30 bushels per acre and
without the use of commercial  fertilizers.
Three years ago I began growing potatoes and
        I   find  this  to  be a  good
crop to follow with wheat.
Not the Same Soil Rotation.
Last year I followed potatoes with
oats, I fell down on that proposition
and so did the oats. We cut what we
could get of them and still they yielded over 50 bushels to the acre. This
convinced me that oats and wheat do
not want the same soil rotation.
The Seed Bed and Peas Rotation.
Now in following this rotation, with
a little harrowing and pulverizing you
have almost a perfect seed bed for your
wheat, and the expense of putting in
the crop is a mere trifle when compared with land that must be plowed and
then pulverized. .
The crops I have mentioned are not
the only ones that could be used in this
rotation. I think tomatoes or peas
would produce the same result, and I
believe if two crops of peas were grown
on land in succession and then sowed
to wheat it would grow so rank that
it would fall down. F. R. Wiese.
Marion Co.. Ind.
WHEAT IN A FIVE YEARS ROTATION.
The flrst necessity for a wheat crop
is a  good  aeed  bed.      We  practice a