Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-30
NO. 6.

comparatively weak crop. The piece after
picked peas was much stronger and more
leafy that after seeded peas better than the
cabbage piece, but weaker than the rest.
We were all mistaken the condemned cab
bage piece was not only best in quality, but
also in quantity. And another important
result ensued. The field was sown down
with clover in the wheat On the tare land
1t was patchy crop, on the cabbage land d
thick and abundant crop a moderate crop
after the two pea pieces. At three hundred
yards distance all these pieces We're distin-
gulshable as though painted on map. The
cabbage land plowed up hard and stiff, and
difficult to drill the rest more or less mel
low.
This year our barley and wheat, after kohl
rabi was drawn off, tops and all, looked thin
and weak, but are now yielding better in
quantity and quality than the more rich
looking crop adjoining after beans and
mangel; the mangel tops being left on the
ground. How clearly all this is explained
by that greatest of agricultural philosophers,
Llebig, in his Modern Agaicultu.e, page 176:
''The previous cultivation of some under
ground crop or some plants with extensive
root ramification, will tend to make the soil
more favorable for the subsequent growth of
a cereal" Page 1913: ssBut in proportion
as the conditions for the formation of straw
and leaves became more favorable. SO did
the quality of the seed deteriorate as it's
quantity dimished. We may imag-
inn fhatyy yy1,o =, n.
equality in the conditions for the formation
Of grain and straw, u culmiferous plant may
under conditions Of temperature and weather
favorable for the production Of leaves, Weld
an enormous crop of straw with empty
ears. In tropical regions, many cul-
mlferous plants bear no seed, or but small
quantity, because the soil does not contain
the proper proportion of conditions for the
formation of seed and leaf
Seasons have much 10 do with Success of
particular crops. The unreasonable heavy
rains and east winds of July ruined the crops
on highly farmed lands, while it greatly
helped the poverty stricken and thin crops
on poorly faimed lands, which dry and
seasohable July would have yielded poor
returns. Crosskilled all my wheats in the
spring with the addition of 5 cWt. to the
Crosskill, horses to draw it !; but even so,
the steam cultivated land forced very
abundant standing crop Oh sixty-two acres
Of wheat, which looked perfection on july
7th, but ultimately succumbed to the un-
suitable downpour and blight of July. 1t
was noticeable that the portions Of field
horse ploWed, not being so luXuriant stood
better and yielded best in quantity and quail
ity, rs did those after exhausting previous
crops.
There can be no doubt as to The fertile ap.
pearance of cereal crops on fallowed or (leen-
ly cultivated and highly manured soils: but
under certain circumstances, the results do
not correspond.
| remember that Mr.. Woodward, Of Per
shore, successful agriculturist, always trod
his wheat. | have seen the men doing il.
and where he broke up an old, worthless
pasture. twenty-four horses were employed
i'll tramping it to soldity, and he then grew
large wheat crops. My plau hitherto hae
been to skim or scarity the surface, burn the
weeds or stubble, md then plow with pair
OF horses for wheat or barley. Where have
steam ploWed deeply this year for Rivett
wheat, and for barley, lave left half an
acre to be horse ploWed to test the difference.
Everybody must believe who secs the ac-
ton of the powerful and undertaking steam
piow. that its cultivation is more perfect
than either horse or manual labor. 1t les