Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-04-05
GROWING SPRING WHEAT.
Cultural Notes From Prairie Farmer on
This Important Farm Crop.

indifference as to tho best modes of
growing it, This would be III every way
unfortunate, for We can't think Of get
ting on in this western country without |
@ certain amount of wheat. In fact, we
must have it not only to furnish us with |
bread, but also to furnish us with bran
for our cattle and horses and shorts for
our swine, and we must have it to fur
nish us with litter, an adjunct OF great
Importance where live stock is kept i'll
any climate, and more especially in one
that is cold in winter. Spring wheat
ought to be sown OH good clean soil.
In the rotation spring wheat comes
| in nicely after a crop of clover or after
| q cultivated crop-as. for instance, corn
or mangels. The clover roots furnish
the wheat plants with food, more es-
pecially with nitrogen, SO essential to
its growth. They retain moisture in the
soil, whether III it's upward Or down
ward journey, and they keep the soil III
an equilibrium as to filth. They do this
by binding leechy soils together, so that
the particles more closely adhere to one
another. They act thus on sandy soil.
l.
olay--frOn ilnpacting. And they do
prive the winds Of much Of their power
to lift and carry away the spOngy soils
OF tho prairie Grass roots Of any kind
serve the same ends, with the difference
that when they arc alive they do not
bring nitrogen from the air, and they
do not penetrate the soil so deeply aH 90
the roots Of tho clover plants. When
the spring wheat comes after Il Hulti-
waited CROP a good yield may be expect
cd, for then the soil is clean and moist.
On the soils of tho far west it would
be better probably to drill in tho spring
wheat without blowing the land, ms on
these impacti0n rather than triability is
sought for AS a rule, the land s0Nn to
spring wheat should be powcd in the
fall. To this there may bo exceptions,
10 in southern Ohio, for instance, where
much rain rather than snow falls in
winter, and in consequence impacts the
land. In tho east the furrows should be
> pulvcrizatiOn in the soil In the west
> they may not only be turned fatty over,
y but ON soils which pillow easily they
may be rolled with IA peculiar kind OF
- - roller with wheels, which impacts tho
= land again and which at the same time
leaves it in little ridges, SO that lii'
wind,; do not 50 easily sweep 1t away
u 'Hhr fail blowing Of the land in tn" "H@
= promotes thn liberation Of TT f"rtll
" tv and fanilltatcs nu!VtriHatlun. In tn
~ west it secures more of density Of soil
> And both cast and west it secures nur
V warmth to tho seed bed in the carl,
" .pling, ard it gives opiJurtuuity for "1r
II sowing.
E,uly sowing is inGisDrn~"hl" to high
u ea$ >urru.S in prowtn. wheat. 1t shout
" be S0Wll a, soon rs the horses can l.
- driven over the soil without inJurlnG II
j. shuuId h" %oWn, if pus~ihlc with IT,
80 grain drill and at the rate of six 10 SrV
IN pocks ui good seed ON we'll proparr
. land. taHuNarl manur" EloWcd in til
=, previous autumn is always helpful tn
crop of spring wheat when properly pr'
pprtlui"h and properly applied. ln tn
~ west Night harrow with many shul
- teeth and which covers much ground Il
'' QUE sweep may hc very prutably u"
- after I!o GrHiIi has made a good start
- Bat ,his work must he done with ji'ds
. lurut. i, destroys weeds and encourage
- the rapid growth OF IT," plants VIII"
~ voarg, which is greatly important,