The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

best sell l have; the very best /
raise better grain there than on any
other part of my farm. l raise the
Gold Corn wheat. 1t has a stiff straw
and a plump head. Last year we
raised from thirty-five to forty bushels
and over TO the acre.
"As to barley. We did not have a
good kind until lately. We used to
raise fifty bushels to the acre Last
year 1 got some Club barley. 1 broke
up a piece of alfalfa and worked it
over right well and sOwed it to Club
barley. 1 raised ninety bushels to the
acre. If you viii attend to it right,
sub-soil your ground and work it over
we'll you can raise from sixty to ninety
bushels of barley to the acre.
There is no water near the surface
on my farm. l went down 17S feet to
get a flowing we'll 1 got three-quarters
of a gallon to the minute I let an
other contract to bore a well on the
bottom below my barn, The contractor
went down $50 feet before he struck
water. 1t rose to within sixteen feet of
the top. He bored on down till he
reached a depth of 476 feet, but could
raise the water no higher. l put a
pump in and have always had plenty
of water, but it never rises higher in
the well.
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the stubble under in the fall. We use
a header in harvesting the grain. This
leaves a large quantity of straw on the
ground. 1t pays to pillow this under in
the fall
How to Handle Alfalfa.
when you SOW alfalfa on dry land
be sure you pillow the ground in the
fall. Leave it rough all winter. In this
way it will get all the moisture that
falls in the winter. Then in the spring
as soon as il is dry enough to work
without sticking to the tools. the har-
row and the disc, work the top over. I
always SOW about eight pounds of seed
to the acre. and half a bushel of oats.
The oats will shade the iucern. If it is
not shaded from the hot sun 1t Will
wilt down when it is young and tender.
AS a general thing, 1 cut this when
the oats are in the milk, and 1t makes
a most excellent feed, and lots of 1t.
But this last year | sow ed twenty acres
of lucern on the side Of the mountain
with a half bushel to the acre of the
best Swedish oats I could find. 1t did
so we'll that when my son came home
from the Agricultural college / told
him we would let the oats mature and
thresh il. We got over $50 bushels of
good feed oats and a large quantity
of straw and alfalfa mixed.
Arid Land Wheat Is Best.
arid land wheat is better than
wheat raised by irrigation. L plowed
I'D two acres Of lucern in the spring of
I9O5-it had been in lucern for fourteen
years. I had little spring wheat, a
teacupful that 1 got from England five
years before. It was said TO be the
best milling wheat in the country. L
kept planting my stock till / had two
bushels. This / sowed on the lucern
ground and, as a result, / threshed out
sixty-eight and half bushels. My
neighbors call / "F'arrells Golden
Wonder 1t is a grand wheat. 1t grew
from three to four feet high. At the
request of the president of the Horti-
cultural society of Utah l sent six bum
dies of spring wheat, six bundles of
fall wheat, six bundles of barley and
six bundles of oats to. Boise. / was
told after the fair that my wheat beat
all the irrigated land wheat at the fair.
MiIlers all over the country will give
better prices for dry land wheat than
for any other"