The Arizona sentinel., 1888-03-10
THE WHEAT FIELD.
How to Obtain Satisfactory Yield With
 out Special Effort.

out Special Effort.
 The best yields of wheat that 1 re.
 member 10 have seen here were on
 three adjoining farms in this town,
 two of them fields of seven acres each,
 one of three acres The two fields o1 seven acres were grown by my neigh
 bors, and the three-ac field by my self. All the fields were fine, gray | ely, or perhaps some would say a sandy, gravelly soil. All were sown
 after an Oat crop had been harvested.
 The oats were grown on corn stub-
 ble. Readers will see that three crops were grown on the land such as are considered exhaustive. All the crops in succession were abundant. in fact,
 quite large. The ground was well manured for the corn crop; the sod was turned under in the spring before planting and the crop titled by level cultivation. The oat crop followed without manure of any kind. We top- dressed slightly with fine manure for the wheat, and the wheat was put in with a drll-one and three-fourths bushels per acre-early in September. The season proved a very favor able one in this vicinity, and the cror on each field was nSidered remark a. ble. as two of them threshed out over forty bushels to the acre; the other the writer 's-a little less. What caused the above yield to quite an ex- tent was the nearly perfect cleaning of the seed sown, consequently at the harvest no foul seed was found in the crop 10 deprcss the yield. or 10 depre- ciate the quality of the grain. Two oi the fields were on land adjoining the highway, and from their excellence they were the cause of remarks by many passers-bY, who stopped to com- ment on their excellent quality and the clean appearance of the grain. l had purchased a new flaming mill that cleaned all grain much better than the mills heretofore in use in this section, and the seed had all been cleaned in that mill before being sown. One of the parties bought this seed as extra clean, and when he told the farmer he bought the seed wheat from that he was going to have it redeemed before sowing, he expressed great surprise that any person should think of clean ing such nice seed wheat as that was. told him when he canie to have his seed cleaned to wait till we had run it through the mill before ho decided that it was already clean. The look of surprise on his countenance when he saw the foul seed cleaned out was pleasant to sec. '1 will take back this refuse," he said. "and show the man l bought the wheat of how foul it was" These three fields of wheat were the best l ever saw and the cleanest grain. The great secret of success was clean seed and good soil well-tilled and favorable season. Clean seed will work wonders on the farm of every farmer who practices the cleaning of all the seed he sows, whether wheat or cOarser grains. The variety of wheat was called Jarvis in this section. The ordinary farm im- plemenls were used-plow, cultivator and Scotch harrow and grain drill for the fitting and seeding, and the self-raking reaper Tor harvesting. which was done before the grain was ripe enough 10 shell. but well out of the dough state. The wheat was put in in the fall of 1S8O and harvested in 1881, which was. a favorab season here for the wheat crop. No special effort was made for either piece ex. cepting the extra cleaning of the seed | sown. --RuraL New Yorker,