The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-29

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ground TO bring you a profitable
yield. These figures are not given
to be the case all the while, but they
give you a good idea of what the re-
suits are from sowing with the hand
This being the case with sowing with
the hands, it Is not the case with a
good diso drill. These will open the
ground just the right depth for you
and put every grain of wheat TO it's
place and then cover every grain
just the right depth, and every grain
will come up if it is sound wheat.
Now
A WORD ABOUT USING FERTILIZER.
Our people should have all the in
formation and advice on this that
they can get, for there is but little
land in North Carolina that will
make wheat without fertilizer, and
since it is very costly, if we do not
know how TO use it to pay, we will
lose money on it, and that fast.
AS TO the amount TO put TO the
acre, that Is something that every
man will have TO find out by trying
tt on his land. I can only give you
some idea of that and you can learn
something up here in the Western
part of North Carolina on these old
red hill sides. If we will prepare
our land right and put 800 pounds
of 1S per cent. aoid phosphate TO the
acre, it will pay Us right we'll. And
she better quality we use the less TO
the acre will bring the same yield.
There is one mistake which people
who have never used any fertilizer
on wheat make, and that is they put
their fertilizer on the poorest land
they have.
In the neighborhoOd some man
perhaps has used the drill and fer
tilizer and made q good yield of
wheat-maybe somewhere about Is
or 20 bushels per aore-and when
this news reaches his neighbors,
some of them will say: 81 am 60
ing TO try the drill and fertilizer this
fall. l have an old field out here
that l have not made anything on
for years and am going TO try drill
ing and fertilizing it and see what /
can do" So he does and makes
about or bushels TO the acre, and
he then says, "Well, there is no pay
in fertilizer, OR "The fertilizer is
no good. " Yet if he had sown the
same land without the fertilizer the
wheat would not have been worth
QUITTING If you wish fertilizer TO
pay, you put it on land that will that
will yield bushels TO the acre, and
1 will assure you that if you do your
work right, it will bring you Is or
18 bushels per acre with the fertilizer.
AS to
THE TIME WHEAT SHOULD BE sOWN
most men differ, and the best way is
for us to learn by trying and seeing
at what time it will do best. This is
very important part of making a
profitable crop of wheat. We find
all over the State people sowing
wheat at all times from the last two
weeks in September until Christmas.
Now, my experience has been that
the season for planting or sowing
anything covers about two weeks
and the wheat sowing two weeks in
Western North Carolina is from the
10th of October TO the 25th of o.
tober, and if we wish TO make a
profitable yield of wheat, this is the
time to SOW it. Everything which
we plant or SOW to bear grain or
fruit of any kind, requires to be in
the ground so many days, weeks or
months that it may grow bear, and
mature a profitable crop. And for
wheat it takes just even eight months
for it to mature, if it is good healthy
wheat. And we find that all over
the State wheat will be ready to out
from the 10th to the goth of June,
no matter if it was sowed Christmas.
Now, if it requires eight months to
grow and fully mature and is always
ready to cut from the 10th to the
2Oth June that would make sowing
time from the 10th to goth of o.
tober all over the State of North
Carolina.
Finally, a few suggestions as to
the seed. Use
NOTHING BUT THE BEST SEED
ond have il we'll cleaned before SOW
ing. If you possibly can, have all the
family and cockerel taken out. Most