The Red Cloud chief., 1881-11-10
Some Experiment. with Wheat.

In the fall Of 1873 | put in " acres
o! wheat and sowed one bnshel of seed
on one acre and one hall bushel on the
other. j. WAS sowu September s, and
when it first came up there was a
marked difference between the two
strips But the fall was favorable for
growth. and before winter il was diff
cult to tell which was the thin-seeded
part. A neighbor cut il for me. and |
told him that one side was seeded with
half q bushel and the other with \
bushe!, and asked him topaz particular
attention and see if he could tell which
no di ierence. We had I03 shocks,
tfty-one on one acre and tiity-two on
the other. and the yield was thirty-iye
bushels per acre. The next year l
added four acres TO the piece and seed
ed it with three pecks Of seed to the
acre. The yield was ls1 bushels. or
thirty bushels per acre. have grown
on picked acres over forty bushels OF
whea, from three pecks of seed.
In the fall Of 1873 ! MANFRED a strip
OF thin land with bone meal at the rate
of about 301 pounds per acre. and left
a space one rod wide through the Gen.
ter to test the difference. As soon as
the whea. started to grow in the spring
that on which the bone was used cut
grew the other. so that il could be
seen from a distance in passing the
field. and at harvest the unmanured
strip was not worth cutting. while the
part ..boDed'' made fifteen bushels of
excellent wheat ~ the acre
In the fail of 1879 | sowec four acres
of wheat On corn land Ii was q cod
clay, and l had rarely grown q paving
crop on it. the corn that year did not
make twenty bushels TO the acre di-
vided it into four equal strips and ma
nure6 the first with n barrel of sifted
hen manure; the second with twelve
loads Of stable manure; the third with
30 pounds of ground bone and the
fourth with 200 pound, OF s~uperphos-
phate. 1 left strips ten fec: vide ~isn-
out any H.aur between the different
plots. From a comparison of the un-
MANFRED strips | estimate that | doubled
the crop BY the fertilizers. The four
acres yielded l2o bushels. and although
l did not thrash the strips separately. 1
found that the barrel OF hen manure
made as heavy > crop as the twelve
loads of stable manure Possibly il
supplied Just what was needed in the
soil or gave the wheat just the quick
start needed to enable il to find msteri-
al already there II . barrel of hen
manure. as the experiment indicates,
viii add ten or fifteen bushels of wheAt
TO the acre, it is time farmers were find
ing it out
am much in favor Of top-dressing
wheat land. and from experiments ea-
tending oye several years. l find q
load Of manure made fine and spread
on the surface. Is worth to the wheat
crop two p.owed under. Ii used in this
every half cord Of MI will
make an extra bushel of wheat-and
Under favorable circumstances il viii
often double this / believe that ma
nure from . she'd where it has been al
lowed to accumulate and retain al the
LIQUID, il worth too or three times As
mnch for wheat Is that from ths barn
yarl and / nm % situated this year
thzt l can test the mstter. q l have
several loads of manure in . stable
where I have kept = mare and colt all
summer. Waldo Z. ByorH, IN RSyal
Her lorker.