The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-04
gfarmers Goluullt.
How blest the flrlaer's simple life
Far from the noise of the city,s strife.
SOWING WINTER WHEAT.

We copy the following from the Prai-
RE Farmer.
THE BEST TIME OF SowING.-With-
out much qualification we may affirm
this to be the first half of September.
Some perfer the last half of August F;
and of course ten days II way or the
other would be likely to effect 10 con-
siderable result, except as it might take
US into q spell of weather wetter or
drier, as the case might be than we
should otherwise meet. We have known
the autumn so dry, from the first of Au-
gust, that no kernel of wheat would
sprout TIL spring, and a splendid crop
to be the result. Other seasons August
is a very wet month; but it is much
more apt to be dry than September
On the whole the first half of this month
is the better rule, with such variations
as IRREGULARITIES may justify.
QUANTITY OF SEED.-Something will
depend on the quality of the seed and
the mode of sowing. If put i'll with a
good drill, and the seedsbe good, We
should prefer one and a half bushels per
acre. Otherwise would say one bushel
or five pecks; but plentiful seeding is
Tie DSGIGE TulS. Ii SOhCu UIOduCdSG III
the seed be perfect, n or two pecks
ought to be added to the quantity used
with a drill. If the seed is in any wise
detected by shrinking or injured seed-as
will be the case with the best wheat, if
threshed with a machine-a portionate
quantity will be needed in addition,
As to foul seeds of any kind. no addition
should ever be made for them since no
man ought to SOW either cookie or chess
anywhere, or rye with wheat. See.
wheat, too, should be grown by itself
or at all events rtpened by itself, and
not cut till fully ripened, and then
threshed with a fail.
BEST MODE OF PUTTING IN THE CRoP
We have no hesitancy in believing
that to be with a good drill, with fukes
seven inches apart, There may be diff
fculty sometimes in making the drill
work on very mellow ground, or in stub
BILE land and in our opinion it ought
not to work on the latter, since stubble
land is not a fit place to SOW wheat
The drill is best because it deposits the
seed at even depth, covers it completely,
and thereby saves a portion of seed, and
leaves the young crop in such a condition
that the sand, instead of blowing away
from the roots, is blown to them, by the
winter winds. Flowing in sometimes
succeeds, but is very liable to bury the
seed too deep.
The RoLLER.-This is q field imple-
ment too little used in the West, where
of all places in the world, it is most need
ed. Our prairie lands are always in
danger of getting too light, and require
to be pressed together. In England this
has long been an indispensable part of
farm practice, and in some places ami
mails, and even men and women, are en-
ployed to tread the ground all over, SO as
to pack the repelling PARTICLES together.
The roller also breaks down the clods,
and puts'the field in good order fer the
hay or harvest machinery. In looms,
where the ground heaves. a spring rooling
is desirable to settle The cath about the
of such plants as have been started
by the frost. 1t would do no harm on
light lands but would not be so essential
as fall rolling.
There is a great difference in the vari-
cites of wheat. The finest sorts for -four
are said to be delicate of constitution,
and rice UerSa. We have known the
Mediterranean wheat to bring forty
bushels per acre while a beautiful wheat
by it's side grew only fifteen.