Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-14
NUMBER SO.

TO yourself"
Having stirred your ground thor
oughly, IL pussible, ten or twelve inch
co deep, sow clean seed. harrow It well,
and keep IL well fenced, and the prob
ability IL that next year you will have
good seed wheat to sell.
Ifit is asked what In the best kind OF
wheat, the answer II, that rs distiu-
guishsd from other kinds Of grain.
tions being the results Of soil, climate,
and cultivation.
Once or twice In q while there 10 n
great noise over some now wheat; but
forty years. experience and observa-
ton has left the Mediterranean master
Of the field. You can have it light or
dark, according to your soil, and good
or poor, according to your mode of cul-
tivation: 90 that IL 10 probably nearer
being the original wheat than any 9TH
er phase Of that grain that We have.
In respect 10 rye the same things are
true. only more 90. Prepare your
ground completely, and SOW. u you
please, the little black rye. Cut your
grain when It 10 not quite fully ripe
and you will have the large white rye.
But IL you cannot get along with the
little black kind, cultivate poorly, and
lot your grain become dead ripe before
You cut, and you will always have
the little black rye.
or oats there are two phases. ewing
to soil and cultivation. There 10 the side
or plume known In Pennsylvania ~
the glade oats, aud the pine tree or up
right oats. BY sowing successive crops
on soil that makes the straw strong and
tho heads light you will secure pine
tree oats. Low successive crops on soil
abouBding In lime, which will make the
head heavy and the straw light and
you can have plume or side oats, hav-
Ing from their very formation n jack
assicsl habit Of lying down and refusing
to get up.
In regard to manures. It is not advis-
able To use crude ar rough manure, such
AZ stable or compost, In immediate con-
nection with the small grains. Plow
late in the fall as deep ~ you can. rake
tue manure into the furrow, and cover
1t with the next furrow.
Without plowiny tho ground ov-
er the next spring, cultivate in corn.
This will give you An excuse for killing
at sight any weeds that may sprout
from the manure, which may mature
among small grain. The cultivation
Of the corn pulverizes the manure and
mixes IL completely with the soil, the
juices Of the manure will have deepened
the soil, aud the corn being gross feed
er will have appropriated the moro
crude elements Of the manure.
II you follow those gross composts
Immediately with the small grains, you
will have more straw and cbah, and
your grain will be darker; but In the
other way you get great deal more of
corn than you would Of wheat for tho
first crop, and you get great deal moro
wheat at the second crop than you
would at the first, because each kind OF
grain finds In abundance and In the
most suitable condition those very ele-
ments Of manure best suited to promote
its growth.
Remember that the objective point
In the cultivation of thssmall grains, is
to secure the largest amount Of grain.
In regard To corn this 10 not 30 inpor-
tant, as corn fodder 10 good feed. Men
drill and SOW fodder exclusively for the
fodder, but who ever sowed wheat ex-
clusively for the straw? Manure must
be followed by crops in such order a.
will be most profitable.
And remember that these articles arc
written primarily for . people cultivat-
Ing stiff clay soil with strong basis
of lime.
There will not be any call for talking,
just now, in regard to moro coucsntrat-
ed .orms Of manure, such a. lime, homo
dust, or guano, because the people do
not have them generally, and because
the first great call Of our strong clay
soil 10 for vegetable matter to make IL
Tighter and more open. Heavy crops
Of clover rolled and plowed under, barn.
yard and stable manure, decay cd leaves
and mould taken from the low grounds
every farmer and gardner needs these,
and every one can get them without
much trouble.
!, It remains now to notice some Of the
! enemies Of the grains. All the various
flies and bugs thai injure crops haye one
feature in cOmmon-they spend large
portion Of each year In the ground. II
IL also certain that they adapt them
selves to the habits OF y country
: or, perhaps, il will be better e
say that certain habits In q country
are very favorable to their develop
ment. Deep and thorough fall plow.
ing is not one Of these habits. The
subsoil plow is their mortal enemy, be-
cause 1t lets In the rain aud the FROST
kills them, and tears up their houses
!, Flowing dseply-say In June-the LAND
: you expect to SOW In the fall, upset.
their arrangements, In short, any.
thing that raises the soil deeply and pal
verizes IL, and ~ bring forward crop'
strong in their growth and ripenins
. early In the season, will injure them
and, IL continued, will utterly ,lestro,
them. 1t In true that this will cause
g~od deal of work Mt the first, but
, will lead TO larger crops In smaile
: : compass. and the article produced will
command . higher price, because
, win be better In quality-so that befor
: : long in order to gain better resU,ts yo
I will not be required to work NJ hard .
you do to-day. In proof u this th
4, writer might state that he has In lro
. county helped to thresh AMI clean u
wheat that weighed six,y-foor poand
+, to the measured bushel, being IN ever
: respect fully equal to the best whie
" " he ever saw produced In Washipgto
!, county, Pa. He supposed there wa
= some mistake In the measure; but ha,
= ing accurately measured the half bust
!. el, he found II was strictly col ixect.
- There were NO bugs In that wbea