The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-07
AN AUTHENTIC CASE.
A Ford Farm Yields SaXty.One and
One.Half Bushels Wheat
to the Acre.

Thos. Weston had his wheat thIeshed
few days ago. Nine acres made 61ls
bushels to the acre. 1t was White Rus
sian, hard. bearded wheat the seed for
which he procured from Nebraska. three
pecks to the acre.
Mr.. Weston does not, however. alto
gether attribute this large yield to the
variety of seed used, but to the deep
blowing and the fact that it was plOwed
early enough to receive some heavy rains
before seeding time.
The breaking was done in the latter
part of July and first of August, eight
inches deep. 1t was sandy loan. similar
to most of our upland prairies, and about
sixty feet above sheet water; had been in
cultivation seven years. but not thor
oughly worked until three years ago.
when it was plowed deep for the first
time, planted in corn and we'll cultivated.
That crop was not success. but was
drilled in soft wheat that fail without
blowing.
This did about as we'll as any soft fall
wheat for that year. 1t was harvested
early in July. A rain came before Mr..
Weston got his stacking done. he stopped
harvest work and went to blowing, hay
ing time to pillow only about nine acres
before he was interrupted by threshers
coming to thresh in the neighbOrhOOd.
There was no opportunity to pillow
again before the first of September, when
it was so dry many of his neighbors could
not pillow, and he could not well make a
greater depth than four inches for the re-
mainder of the field of IL total of about
fifty-two acres.
He commenced seeding the nine acres
about the Goth of September, putting in
about thirty acres between that and the
first of October. a good rain fell imme-
diately after, and the wheat all came up
promptly, making a good stand and
growing rapidly. Il made first rate pas
ture before the weather turned cold and
a small bunch of cows and horses were
turned on to Craze all winter, except
when it was muddy. That on the first
and deepest blowing was darker color,
hcwever. right from the first, and also
made the most rapid growth.
In fact, the line between the two could
be distinguished as far as the field could
be seen at all.
On close inspection, as growth pro-
crossed, it was found in the earliest.
deepest blowing, the wheat plants
(though originally no thicker on the
ground than those on September plOw-
ing, aud though both drilled in at the
same time, with same amount of seed to
the acre. were stOoling out more. The
drill rows ran the same way the blowing
was done, and on the line between the
eight inch and four inch blowing, drill
rows of stubble meandered slightly, so
the same row would be sometimes in the
eight inch, then in the four inch stirring.
back and forth clear across the field. III
variably in the deepest blowing the stub
BILE stands thickest even in the same drill
row.
This is doubtless accounted for by the
fact that heavy rains which descend in
such volume as t. Saturate four inches
and then leave surplus to run off and
be wasted down draws and ravines to-
ward the river, there to sink in the I'M
dertlow sand strata, are all absorbed by
the deeper blowing and held as in a res
ervoir, to be drawn near the surface by
heat which often prevails during dry
spell in summer.
Forestry Commissioner Bartlett plows
to the depth of fifteen inches, and he has
been successfully growing large num-
Der of varieties of trees and plants even
through the least favorable seasons.
That. too. on one of the highest ridges in
the county, without irrigation.