Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-24
Cut the Wheat Early.


our wheat crop. As we write the pros
pect is good. We have had no rain for
over two weeks, and so far as we can
learn, an average crop is promised. Har.
vestlng of wheat will commence in some
localities next week, and we wish to i'm,
press upon our numerous readers the i'm.
portance of cutting their grain early.
This is the advice Of the best and most
successful farmers. Read carefully the
following which we clip from the Pioneer
Press. We cannot afford this year to
lose through neglect and waste:
By cutting the wheat early the wheat
will be gathered without Smelling or
waste. 1T will weigh more, retain Its
bright amber color, and make better -four
and more of It. The juice in the stock
II cut while still green will perfect the
grain, II properly managed" 1t will
rescue the wheat from the critical stage
of the summer heats when it is most in
danger OF blight. This Is no new expe-
riment. 1t is the practice of all the best
farmers in this country and Europe, and
experience there and here has demon
strated that when the grain is cut in the
dough it is of much better weight and
quality and contains more nutriment
than when allowed to fully ripea. Spe-
cial experiments repeatedly made have so
abundantly proved this that it has become
one of the established rules of good
farmers to cut wheat early, shile still in
the dough. Though our best farmers know
this rule and practice II, yet in the great
majority of cases our farmers wait till
the wheat is hard or fully ripe before
cutting, and the result is that according
to English experiments they lose Q con.
siderable percentage of their crop BY
Smelling and waste, and they lose still
larger percentage in the weight and nu-
trltious qualities of the grain. There is
no more wasteful error in our whole sys-
TEN of agriculture than this practice of
waiting till the wheat IS ripe before har-
vesting 1t, For this is q constant and
regular source OF loss. Another cause of
waste is in bad stacking; but the evil re-
suits of this are dependent on bad weather,
which may or may not intervene. But
the delay in cutting wheat till ripe 10 a
radical error, from the penalty of which
there Is no escape.
We clip the following from the pen Of
4 practical farmer, It is well worth care.
full consideration:
CUTTING.
Let the cutting begin as soon as the
berry is we'll out Of the milkf in dough,
and where there Is large acreage and LOT
the most thorough and systematic ar
engagements made TO prosecute the work
vigorously don't hesitate III commence q
day or two earlier. az 1t will often happen
that everything will not work Just right
on the start, and very little will be done
for . day or more while you are getting
things to work.
There is little doubt that, could the crop
be gathered without noticeable waste, it
would be better TO wait until the grain
Is further advanced before commencing;
but It Will not do to forget that there are
contingencies or dangers hanging over it
every moment; storms, partial blight, at
least, after the stage at which commence.
bic waste attending the getting Of ripe
grain are some Of the potential reasons
for beginning early. Other reasons may
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SHOCKING.
In what has been said the use of the
harvester-not the header-is assumed,
and the bundles should be Immediately
gathered and shocked with care and well
capped; II suffered to lle even one day
scattered over the field, your grain will