The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-09-02
BRUNNER'S
Preparation Of wheat Ground.

The first requisite for a wheat crop, is a
thorough preparation Of the ground.
"ClOdhOpper" laid it down ns absolutely
necessary to succeed in wheat raiseing, to
have 90 solid seed bed, " aud no proposition
is more true. 1t matters not that some
seasons we raise good crops with q loose
porous seed bed. The majority of our
Nutumns and winters are adverse to the
wheat crop, when it is only under the most
favorable circumstances that we succeed in
raising fair crop.
One experiment proves nothing, but
continued succession Of them will demon
strate the truth or falsity of any hypothesis
that is capable Of actual demonstration.
No Observant farmer, who is in the habit
Of following for wheat, but can call to mind
instances, where he commences 20 break
early, and his ground is beaten down by
the rains, and becomes solid, while the late
broken lies up loose and dry, pulverize it
ever so we'll, and SOW both the same day,
the early breaking will come up strong and
vigorous, grow off and stand the drputh Of
autumn, and the frost Of winter, compare
lively well, while the latter will come up
sickly aud yellow, making q poor growth
in the fall, and if hard winter freeze out,
and at harvest be a failure.
Then let us have a solid seed bed. II
we break early and don't have rains to
pack it down, let us pack it with the roller.
If we seed on corn ground, never break It,
or even pillow it with the double shovel, all
We need is two or three inches Of well pull
verified soil on top, below that, cornfeld
never gets too hard the season Il is tended
to corn, to produce good wheat crop.
By the way, if our land is fertile, we can
not get a much better chance for O crop Of
wheat, than an old sod tended to corn in
the summer, and then cut the corn out Of
the way, and seeded in the fall. Tending
the corn puts the land IN fine condition TO
seed, Chat is, If tended.) Having the seed
bed rightly prepared, the next considera-
tiOn is additional security for crop. The
next best security is tho manure pile and
phosphate; the former, sadly neglected.
Before sowing the wheat, scraps every
shovel full Of manure out Of the barnyard,
the pig pens, the hen house, the pig bedl
out In the woods. the ash hopper, aud any
other corner Of the farm where you car
find half wagon load Scatter over the
wheat ground after It is broken, and ther
mix it in the top soil with the harrow be-
fore drilling In the wheat
All the land we can't treat as above, shall
We phosphate9 THE Is tlo question mex
for demonstration. In conversation will
some Of the prominent farmers Of Clintol
county, they expressed a determination Z,
use phosphate on their best land. II tht
phosphate win increase the yield on goot
land sufficient to pay for itself, insur,
against partial failures, and produce a goot
set Of grass, It is certainly the part OF wis
dom to use st, The top dressing Of manur,
we know hos not failed with us but twio
in thirty years, once by the wheat freezing
to death 10 the drill rows, and once by ca,
Hessian hy. Let each farmer resolve him
self into q committee Of one, 10 demon
Bt1aio tho phosphate problem, aud report
Always seed with a drill The best tim
10 SOW no man onn tell, unless oLOohiol'
seer, the weather would cast re shadow
before him. Some good farmers try
SOW from the 2Olh to The lnsi Of September
Ei sown too early, &c is more apt 10 bo in
iurdd by the Az f too late, it has 40
vitality enough 10 stand the winter
FoREsT Hoim, Aug 27th. BRQgUs.