The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-09
THE GRAIN CROP.

rangements, that, with rain and with
securing the oat and hay crop, the
threshing aud securing the crops of
Winter grain will run into August.
If so. the stacking or threshing
should be completed without delay.
A weatherbeaten crop, even though it
in the market.
Z Should the farmer contemplate
sowing wheat crop on fallow land
or upon clover ley, he could not pillow
it too carly in August, or break it too
we'll. There are seasons so genial,
seasons when showers are SO we'll
timed and the temperature so mild,
that the wheat crop seems to grow
without trouble; 1919, for example,
was one of them We remember in
the Fall of 1918 to have seen a field
prepared by attempting to pillow in a
crop of crab grass two feet Or more IN
height, the effort resulting in little
more than collecting the grass in piles
by relieving the choking plow. We
remember, also, that the wheat crop
of 1918 was so light and chaffy as to
resemble cheat more than plump mer-
charitable wheat; and yet this light
wheat, sown and brushed in roughly
upon the field in question, yielded at
the harvest of 1919 q good crop-the
grain of understandable quality. But
upon the whole, we believe il is quite
as Important and, perhaps, more so,
that the wheat crop should be put In
we'll, as IN good time. As wheat far
mers,, we were trained in the Mary
land school, which required the SOW
ing to be finished by the 10th of De-
tober. But we remember, on one &C.
casion, in putting in a crop consist
ing of some one hundred and twenty
acres, that from uncomfortable
causes, some thirty acres of the crop
was not seeded on the 10th of Octo-
Der. and we determined by way Of
making amends for the late sowing,
to give to this part of it another
thorough cross blowing, which de-
layed the sowing till the 10Th OF Oc-
tober. By this cross blowing there
was effected thorough commingle-
ment of all vegetable matter and
clean soil, and it SO turned out that
this was the most promising portion
of the whole field; and what then
seemed most surprising it was ready
for the sickle before tt part of the
crop sown on the first q October.
CULTIVATE THE pa ,HARD. asa.7a
~ By some the practice of cultivat-
ing the ground around orchard trees
is questioned, as of. at least, doubt
fnl proprietys Their claims as to its
value are that our young orchards,
under regular culture of pillow and
hoe, are more strong, and less injured
by insects, than those that have been
left in grass. They also claim that,
by stimulating the growth of the
trees by cultivation, they are more Ii
able to blight, and destructive to the
tree.
How far such views may be ,sus-
tanned in practice we know not; GER
tainly in our observation, they are not
tenable. We have found the fruit in
most uncultivated orchards to be
small aud knotty; and, when the Wig
or of the tree has been checked by a
close. compact sod. if any growth oc-
ours from an unusually growing sea-
son, it is generally water sprouts. fill
ing up, choking and diverting the vi
tally of the tree from its true and le-
Ultimate channel.
We do not believe in breaking the
ground deeply, tearing asunder roots
of half to an inch in diameter, and
especially those near the crown; but
we believe the ground kept light and
loose, two to four inches deep, and
stirred eften during the season of
growth with the cultivator. or Shares
harrow will give healthy growth,
prevent in measure the increase of
insect life. and render the tree hardy
and capable of enduring extremes Of
Temperatures In the besfT ma q ner.-
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