Middletown transcript., 1877-09-29
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have sown the aeed for next year ero
Of wheat The yield Ot this irnpoltan
cereal crop the present year in thi
country amounts to S25,OOO,O0O busf
els, which is an excess Of fifty millio
bushels over last season, and encoul
aged by the present outlook for futur
remunerative prices, it is probable tina
larger breadth of land VIII be devo
ted to its cultivation than usual th
present Fall. As seeding time is al
most at hand it seems proper 70
farmers to compare notes and see wha
can be learned from each other upor
the successful growing Of this crop
upon which the profits Of the year $,
much depends, and it i beftting tha
the columns Of this paper should Civ
expression to such ideas as prevail
-among the enlightened farmers Of thii
section Of the Union.
At d recent meeting of farmers il
Lancaster county, i mi. GF6f gavl
his mode Of cultivating wheat, which i
/ to drill in rows at a greater distance
apart thanyis customary, BY changing
his drill 50 that it hasbhtfour, instead
Of the usual eight, seed spouts. He hat
sh6fels 50 arranged as tp scatter the
seed in each drill to the width of foul
inches, instead Of allowing it to lie in a
straight line. After the wheat is well
up be cultivatss it with the shovels at.
taehed to the wheat drill, the shovels
passing between the rows of wheat the
same as the cultivator is passed between
the rows of corn. He has ne difficulty
in getting the horses to walk between
the rows Of wheat. He believes he
can raise at least six bushels more per
acre than BY the old plan. Mr.. Heiges,
Of York, had for several years cultiva-
ted bis wheat in a similar manner, and
last year grew twice as much per acre
as BY the old method. Other members
endorsed this mode Of growing wheat.
If there il the virtue il this plan
that these practical growers believe,
and we confess it seems to us unrea-
sonabIe, it should not take the farmers
Of other counties than Lancaster long
to find it out.
Of varieties the Fultz and 6lawsonT
will be largely sown this Fall. The
Fultz natures much more rapidly than
the other, it contains more grains to
the head. butithe grains are smallers
less seed IS therefore required of the
formertban Of fths Gawson. Last year,
in Montgomery county, one farmer
forty-three bushels to the
acre Of the Fultz variety; but while it
Is ia much favor in that section, the
yield this year IS not 50 promising.
The result Of an experiment on an
Upper Dublin farm the present season
d as follows; Six bushels Of Clawson
drilled upon three acres; alongside
three acres Of Fultz, then one acre Of
Rodgers, and adjoining again three
acres of FuItz. BesnIE CIawson, heads
III large, standing al full height ana
full to the end with fine plump wheat.
F'ultz, heads full but short. Rodgers,
straw very short, heads large and full
out many grains shriEeledA The yield
# Clawson is FIVE bushels more than
FuItz and worth FIVE cents per bushel
more. The yieldof Rodgef's iessthan
Eultz and worth less per bushel. 4
The crop Of Clawson raised by Jas.
Thornton. Of ByberEy, in 1875 5sgieldedI
wenty-six bushels per acre the next
lear thirty-three; the seed coming
rom Seneca county, New York. We
AVE before us the table of experiments
made on the Experimental Farm the
present season, showing from Of an
,cre 25Sa lbs. Of Fnltz to 26Os of Claw
on, with about ! more weight of straw
Or the latter. These two varieties
made the largest yield Of any tested.
The Fultz was ripe June Both and the
JIawson July 4th.
The Importance Of sowing the best
eed attainable il SO manifest to all in
farmers BY this time that it is
lot necessary for Us to dilate upon the
ubject We however suggest while
Ipon the topic that growers could per-
laps prevent wheat from running
'ut,Y by selecting their seed with
,reater care, taking only the largest
leads, or passing all the small or shriY-
led grains through a seive, sowing |
lone but the large, plump ones.
In regard to manuring wheat ground
We have little testimony to offer. Each
grower has made up his mind by this
ime what kind Of comnercial fertilizer /
rings the best results-this he viii |
ontinue to use. Our adEiceis simple
pile it on. There is no discount on
'arn-yard manure and we have always
deserved that the man who used It'll
.bundantly always grew rich. So pile
hat on too.--Fdqm Jomnal.
The GRCPs-Corn in this section
'romises to be an unusually fine crop.
4 has had MI fha rain naadad a.,J /