Delaware weekly Republican., 1884-07-31
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Tie season Of tho year has come
again when farmers are breaking up
their pTomnsi and preparing Il forwheat
sowing. 5As d general thing oats stub
BILE ground ii used for that purpose,
though in many instance clover sod Is
used and frequently early corr ground.
The farmers with average sized farms,
say from l30 to id0 acres, generally
SOW from fifteen to twenty acres Of
wheat. 10 prepare this ground for the
seed Ia no lkfle trouble The plough
ing and the narrowing, preparatory
preparations for the reception Of the
manure, are laborious operations, and
usually take MP n couple of weeks of
time, according to the force used. Then
comes the manure hauling, always a
laborions process of labor. In our
Younger days, when we worked upon
farms, we had more of a dread Of mar
nure hauling, and spreading 1t over the
broken mp fields, than of any other labor
connected with farming. Even to this
day while there are patent plows, patent
hirrows, patent drills, patent every
thing nearly connected with farming,
there has been no patent plan for load
ing up and hauling out manure. But
then every thing connected with a
wheat crop is all right down hard bone
labor. However, farmers are glad that
they have plenty of manure to use, and
this thought lightens to a certain degree
the labor of toll. The disposition is Il
make the manure 60 too far, to maxi
II spread over too much ground, In
deed the disposition from the start, !
In our opinion to cultivate too mucl
ground Ia wheat, trusting to the seasol
to mature it. There is too much of hal
hazzard manner of sowinga wheat croI
Many Farmers know that they have pr
too much ground 10 wheat. The
- aAssasss-.l.e4 much Of 1t is not sutiicien
Iy man1ifed to mature a crop. Bt
they trust to chance and sometimes
Providence.
If,perchance, the season is just righ
not too much dry nor too much W
weather, 1t will probably pay expense
but If not there will be that much 10
and that is all there is in it. If
brings ten or fifteen bushels per acre
right, If less we will have to put
with it.
1t strikes us that there is too much
this hap-hazzafd kind of farming dol
the only sure result of it being plenty
hard labor and poor pay. The yield
wheat this year has been a fine one.
has been one of the years when char
was on the side Of the farmer and FRI
ordinary ground he gathered twer
bushels of wheat per acre. This at
dollar bushel makes twenty doll
an acre, This twenty dollars has
pay for all the labor, the ploughing,
narrowing, the hauling of manure,
any was used, the drilling, the harvt
ing, the threshing and the market
of the crop.
Out Of this must be deducted
price Of the seed wheat, 50 an acre
least. Can it be possible that there
any profit in wheat farming at
rate2 IL is true the farmer has n Ii
morsel of straw left in addition to
wheat, but with it all the debtor sid'
his ledger must more than balance
credit side.
Now, what is to be done to ins
larger crops OF wheat and a larger
turn In money to the farmer
Plainly to cultivate less ground,
It in better order, manure 1t better,
less seed on an acre, and a larger c
will be insured. Recent experimt
by DR.. Greenleaf and others Of a sc
tiiic and experimental turn of N
show conclusively that at least 70
and as high as eighty bushels of WI
can be raised to an acre, and '
much less expense in the way of n
ual labor and seed. Ifthese results
be reached, and we know they
with so little labor and expense, /
time farmers would wake up to the
portanee the subject demands. If
bushels of wheat can be raised from
acre at peck of seed to the acre, Y
is the use of cultivating two acres
sowing four bushels of seed to rails
like number of bushels2
Farmers would do themselves 6
favor if they would make these ex
ments in wheat growing themse
t.n, and, t,il1vs w. -, nrT for themselves
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