The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-10-28

Tziok s. 3H ' ! ! s ~ 81 dR1iS:
oflate years the practice Of sowing
81 /. q, danllipg wheat and and other grains
more spsringly has much increased
The change ID partly due, We hope. to
better cultivation, better preparation
of, the soil, and especially to the use
Of the drill, which secures 4 perfect
covering Of the seed at uniform depth.
In sowing on the furrow, especially on
new land among; .stumps and stones,
Y, not g more than half the grain would
i sFS u and often len than .that.. : If
thsdrill distributes evenly the guam
Atysof grain really needed 6 a; a.sge d
seeaihg is.Yery small much leas than
III s&rmet think, Of sowing Il ii, !, Some
curious calculations on this subject
show that bSSshe1 81, wheat. i contains
about 100000 grains, enough to give,
If distributed evenly and al, ' grew, a
plant to every three. square inches of
space. One peck, per acre would
leave the plants only six inches apart,
which is really closer than need be
fora goodcrop. An English farmer
BY manipulating wheat, the grains
nine1inches apart, has secured a crop
Of sixty bushels per acre. -
- It,is commonly urged by farmers
that thick seeding protects wheat from
the severity Of the winter by ensuring
a'large growth Of tops. But as each
individual plant is orowdedan stunt
ed, it is less fitted to endure the sever.
IT,: d wintst. softesn On fields which
looked promising in fall We have seen
the ground entirely bare. in ii spring.
There is, f. course; s;;slixht adyap-
tage in the ID eci5ing stems & and '' roots
Of the plants which die; az manure,
but tits the dearest Fertilizer that any
farmer cam USE. IF wheat Is to be
qsedes fertilizer! let thee s.. portion not
abs6lutelyEh Needed for seed be- matted,
% that it VIII not gfeia,s 81 and diitr,k
ute with the rest. OF cou1seno farm
= would do that. but It q :mo 1is sens;-
BE than sowing more seed than Sis
needed with the idea Of ;beannetiippig
the crop. There is shre~dsense in the
E 81 pEeverb: The JM8 oIsatt s4esal
for the wheat plant is another,wh4s*
IIp.pt. Otter y weeds s.l might taKssl yse@sSs
thing not needed for wheat; but tie
wheat Plants srob,' hs s9il| o
WHAT'S most needed to beretained for
tie aop. X. Is: ','... 49, =, v., 80 ~
WA have noted some experiments
ip thick and thin sowing Of. spring
grain. In most cases the results were
apparently favorable to the thin seed
ing, especially where the ground was
rich Unfortunately the experiments iet
were not accurately made, and only
the general result can be stated.
Thick seeding apparently did best on
soil not rich enough to- allow the
grain to spread from the root. As q
rule, the richer the land the less seed
required OF. allowable. .~,L. -.
"a further conclusion on this sub
ject seems to be that thin seeding
gives: larger and heavier grain than
where the plants are crowded closely
together. By mistake last spring on
tie Home farm . 4 - I bouts # bailey
iwere drilled. at the rate Of little
more than 4 bushel PEI: 'acre, Tie
barley for: several. weeks appeared
q.atethin, but before Harvest Became
nearly as thick as the other, and we
fancied was a heavier head and berry
than the remainder Of the field sown
at the rate Of % bushels::per acre. On
the headlands, where the. drill over
Tapped, sowing FIVE bushels per acre,
the barley was almost a failure, small
straw, smaller heads and very small
grains. This view ii favor of light
seeding is confirmed by Mr.. Mech,
the celebrated English farmer, who
says, in the English AGRICULTURAL Ca
se4e, that he has reduced the = seeding
Of barley. from three bushels to six
pecks per acre, and that where three
bushels, is now. sown the crop is. too
light in grain for mailing, and is fit
only to l:3 sgll;iipdngI,:: We think that on
allirich hand nix pecks Of barley and
the saPp 5s a II oats are bstter than hesv-
ier seeding? For wheat one bushel or;
fiXss Ill., mort 'ih be
sufficient wherever wheat should be-
'qva;t's A{lth Fl n! s'a xhsat
seeding We hope our readers having
drills will try various quantities Of
seed, from one buahel or less to two
bushels .sil y I, and d report the result:-Rural
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There ~ was French singer il VIII 4.
tremendons voice, VIC, could not discover disco,
what line Ii 81 81 w. Test fitted for. II he
vent u CherubinI VIZ told lin ~ q aipg.
Hs Sang, Gid the found ation ttisse;nnabled.-
aWeli1 IL, sid vhen, he b.d l fSn;.bed al.