The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-08-20
$ The Next Wheat Crop.

The Next Wheat Crop.
It is now full time farmers were
looking about, and determining
where, and how much land they will
SOW to wheat, the coming fall.
Wheat land cannot now, be too
soon prepared for the crop. The
seasonable rains in Central Ohio,
have made the land in good condi-
ton for blowing If you have an
old clover field break it up at once,
harrow and mellow it well, even if it
requires the use of the roller Mel
low land always retains more mois-
ture than cIoddy land. The advan-
tages of preparing land well, now
are, that it will do to SOW any time,
even if dry weather should succeed.
Give the wheat fair chance; SOW
early, say before Sept. Is, and use
some variety of seed that has been
well tried and found to succeed gen.
orally in your own neighborhood.
Wheat well put in and early, on
suitable soil, SO that it gets a good
start in the fall, covers the ground
so as to protect the roots in winter,
will nine times out Of ten, make a
good and paying crop.
Come now brother farmer, just
think and look back for the last ten
years, when did you have a field of
wheat that was sown early, that got
a good start in the fall, so as to
cover the ground and look as green
as a meadow, that did not make a
good, nay first rate crop? On
the other hand, now think again
back ten years, when did you have
a field of wheat, put in late, land in
poor condition by being not prop
erly plowed and mellowed, so that
your wheat had poor start in the
fall, did not cover or hide the ground,
that paid expenses
The fact is, we must give more
attention to our wheat crop, Or we
might as well, nay better, quit try
ing to raise our bread.
If some places in your field are
not quite so rich as the balance, 60
into your barn yard and take that
pile of rotten manure, and after
your land is narrowed and made toll
erably smooth, put it in piles Of
about one bushel over the poorer
spots your piles as far apart each
way as shocks of corn. Just before
sowing, spread evenly over the sur
face and mix with the soil by har
rowing or with a cultivator. You
will now have your manure just
where you want it, to give the young
plants fine start; and young plants
are as much like young animals
much depends ON the start. TO
have good healthy wheat plants, we
stsow good plump seed and that
only. Clean over your seed and
blow it hard enough to blow out all
light grains. No good farmer OF
course will sow wheat mixed with
rye Or chess it is folly to expect {
good crop from poor seed Who
has not noticed how much weaker
and lighter stalk small grain O.
corn will produce than large one
Compare popcorn, broom corn, ol
sorghum, with large grained fiele
corn, and see the difference in weigh
of stalk while very young. 1t is
just so with wheat; large plump
berry will produce good. stou
plaut; shriveled berry a weak one
Some may say have not the time
or labor to spare, to do all this W.
answer, far better to do well, lit
tie, than to half do much. If yol
want to raise say two hundred ant
fifty bushels of wheat, it is mucl
better to grow it on ten acres thai
on twenty-five.
AS general rule, it is useless t.
wait till after corn cutting and ther
sow the land in wheat On an a1
erage, for the last fifteen years, lat
sowed wheat has not paid for tn
seed and labor, saying nothing
about rent of land, repairs, taxes
dc. Sow early and in the best man
ner, OF don't SOW at all if you mus
buy your bread, better save you
seed. If farmers would summe
fallow and manure their land, the,
could yet raise good fields of wheat
We have been cheating nature til
nature will be cheated no longer -
We must return something to ou
, soils for what they give US. It i
folly, too, to sow wheat on Ian,
that was not well drained. A super
abundance of moisture will cause
to be killed by the frosts Of winter
Exercise your own good judg
ment, sow early and well on goot
land, well prepared, and our Stat
will raise as good or better whea
than during the virgin richness o
her soils.-Farmer Chronicle.
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