The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-02

Alabama for soil improvement. aiso TOT hay for home consumption and for pas turare. Animals 1t first do not like It. but when accustomed to 1t they thrive on t. Seed, unthrashed, usually cost S1 to s1.5o per bushel. An advertise ment would bring cut many oners or seed J. Y. D'
 Growing Wheat.
 Southern Ruralist.
 While cotton Is a very attractive proposition at the present price, ana while we may be tempted to reserve more land for this crop next year, still we must not forget what an immense amount of work 1t took to make this years crop, and how the grass very nearly got away with us as 1t was.
 Now, instead of planting more cot ton next year, would 1t not be wiser to put moro land in wheat this fall
 Wouldn't you have made just as much cotton this year, even If you hadn't tried to work 50 much land. but had concentrated your efforts and fertiliser on what you could cultivate thoroughly we'll with the labor at your disposaiY That is the way we feel about 1t, and that. we know, is the way a great many good farmers look at 1t.
 At the Farmers Institute. held at Auburn, Ala. this summer. large
 
 remarked: T tell you, gentlemen, Ia bor conditions have reached the point where the only thing for us to do Is to concentrate our efforts. to farm on a more intensive plan and make larger crops on less land"
 It Is certainly the part of wisdom to divide things up and plant num- Der of different crops which will come in at different times, so that we Will not have to prepare all our land at one time as we do in the spring. when planting mainly cotton and corn. Wheat Is one of these crops, but even with wheat it is best not to spread out over too much land; but to plant only so much as we can prepare for, and ferti- liHe properly. It pays better, and is very much more satisfactory to make 100 bushels of wheat on three or Tour acres, than to have to go over ten or twelve acres to obtain this amount; and while, of course, the quality or the land will have great deal to 0 with the yield. still proper preparation of the land. and the proper amount of the right kind of fertilizer. most ex- | cellent results may be obtained on ap- parently poor land.
 Wheat succeeds best on rather stin. clay land. One reason for this Is doubtless due to the fact that clay iand | contains more potash than sandy land; | for wheat requires a liberal supply or | potash to make strong, healthy I growth and e plump. heavy grain. | Even on sandy land wheat may pe grown successfully if the proper ferti- | lizer is used. On average land Ter tilizer for wheat should analyze about as follows: Nitrogen, per cent; | phosphoric acid, 6 per cent. and potash. per cent. You can make fertilizer showing a similar analysis to this by combining 1,1eo pounds acid phosphate. | 500 pounds cotton-seed meal, and 24o | pounds muriate of potash to make | ton. Be sure that these ingredients are thoroughly mixed together so that l the whole mass will show an even color throughout and all Jumps pounded up. 1 This fertilizer. applied at the rate | of 400 to 600 pounds per acre. should 1 give more excellent results. We have | grown over 40 bushels of wheat per acre where conditions were right By | right conditions. mean such prep
 aratson of the soil as well give me. firm seed bed, and the right amount of fertilizer to furnish the necessary
 plant food.
 location, especially if the land was
 broken deeply with two-horse plow Tn
 June when preparing for the peas.
 Here ali we need Is a good cutaway
 or disc harrow to work up the surface | to a depth of four to six inches. We l first disc the land and drag level, then | apply fertilizer broadcast. after which
 stand a week or ten days before sow
 ing in order that the fertilizer may
 become well incorporated witn the son ~
 and not injufe the seed. Your land IS
 then in fne condition for the seed
 drill. It has never paid us to break land
 very deeply for wheat, and whenever
 this Is done great pains must be taken
 to work the land down; afterwards we
 disc and drag again. Then let 1t with
 cutaway harrow and roller. Neither
 will it do to turn under lot of trash
 when blowing the land, as this also
 has a tendency to keep the soil too
 loose down in. It Is much better to
 work up the land in such manner as
 to leave the trash practically all on
 the surface.
 or cotton, provided, as we have stated
 the land Is properly prepared. Don't
 think that you can simply SOW wheat
 and blow in with a scooter. without fertilizer or other preparation and ex'
 pect to make much of a crop.
 The best time to SOW wheat IS atts' i comes, in this locality, about the mid dle of october. Any time from ther until the middle of December will dS nicely. -
 The best varieties. and those mos generally planted here at the South are the Blue Stem and Cuthrelfs Pro
 Ijac. These are both beardless varie ties. Sow or drill in live to six peck ! of seed per acre and If you have nt ! drill, you can work in the seed witl cutaway harrow or cultivator. A drii puts in the seed much more evenly however, and as a rule, insures bet
 ter crop. It is good plan to roll iant
 after sowing and follow with smooth ing harrow, as this leaves the surface . in a firm, but porous condition. and wil l absorb rain without forming crust F. J. M. I Water for the Farm House. A water supply In the farm house Il I necessary. No home is complete with = one lie nIuxs or faucets here and ther