Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-08-31
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THE COURIER
By G. r. BRUCE
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WINTER WHEAT.

1t has always been surprise TO us
that farmers In the latitude of central
Iowa and south This section Of South
Dakota also should be included. Ed,
COURIER, don't give more attention to
the growing Of winter wheat. There
was an excuse for neglecting this crop
when good wheat brought no more than
fifty cents per bushel. Those days arc
past
The bread eating capacity of the
United States Is fast catching up with
the wheat producing capacity of the
country. Last year we had very little
wheat for export, and imported three
or four million bushels from Canada.
The foreigners are coming, the babies
are coming (not SO fast as the public
welfare requires, howeverl and all
these mouths must be fed. We will no
doubt export wheat in years OF album
dunt brop, but the time Is coming, and
that not in the far distance, when the
United States will in normal years con-
sumo all the wheat it will grow.
We don't urge our readers outside Of
the territory indicated to engage large
iy In growing winter wheat, although
we believe that in time the winter
wheat belt will be extended clear up In
TO Minnesota. We are now inthe fourth
year OF excessive rainfall on the plains.
It may reasonably be expected that we
will have series Of dry years follow
ing This will put an end for the time
being 5othe extension OF wheat grow
ing In the dry farming regions. The
sRring wheat region in Iowa is moving
still farther northwest, and it is only a
question OF time when spring wheat
will be q negligible quantity and TIL
great bulk Of the crop will be winter
wheat. Under these circumstances the
farmer south Of central Iowa may wei!
consider the propriety OF giving winter
wheata place in bis rotation. He mus
however, begin intelligently and take
advantage OF the experience of others.
There are two good ways of growing
crop Of winter wheat. The first is to
pillow up oats stubble as early In Aug ust
as possible. Do a good job of blowing.
Then after the land is piowed 90 over
It with the disk or spring tooth har-
row and cultivate II thoroughly. A
week or Two afterward do Ii again, the
aim being to prepare an ideal seed bed
for winter wheat. The bottom of the
furrow slice should be as compact az
possible, with the object of restoring
capillary connection between 1t and The
snbsoiI. The upper seed bed should be
what farmers call lively, not lumpy
nor yet dusty, but lively.
The Turkish Red wheat Is the oulv
variety that 1t is sale for the novice to
use between the latitude OF Topeka,
Kansas, or Columbia, Missouri, and b j
Moines, Iowa. South OF that soft wheats
are perhaps better, but within these
lines OF latitude lies the Turkish Red
Wneat country. The Turkish Red