Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16

| II rom Une 0Un TO Ule 10Th or Sep
tember north of line drawn through
central Iowa, and little later south
of that line, how much later depend
ing on the latitude, drill in the variety
of wheat that seems to do best in
your locality. In Iowa, Missouri,
northern Nebraska and central Illi-
nois the Turkish Red, or some kindred
variety such as Kharof or Malakotf
or Buda Pesth, will found to do
best. This wheat goes under differ
ent names, but essentially it is the
same as the Turkish Red, which is
really Crimean wheat. The type is
much more important than the name
by which it is known. In sections
such as southern Kansas, where soft
wheats do the best, use a type of
which is found by the experience of
! the best farmers to be adapted to that
locality.
Don't use anything but a drill of
some kind, and put your wheat just
at the bottom of the dirt mulch that
you have established, say half an inch
into the compacted under part of the
furrow. This places the seed where
1T has every chance to grow and grow
quickly, and the quick termination Of
winter wheat is of the utmost import
adce. Don't try to do too good job
by drilling your wheat both ways.
You want that wheat in your drill
slit. If you attempt to get an ideal,
even distribution of your wheat by
drilling both ways you will have trou-
BILE next spring in case the season
be dry. Get your wheat down in the
drill slit or furrow. Get it to grow
ing early, so that it will cover the
ground. You have then fulfilled one
of the conditions required for first
class wheat crop.
Another essential condition is to
have rich land. You cannot very we'll
have land too rich for winter wheat.
The ideal condition so far as fertility
is concerned If when land has been
heavily manured and followed by corn
or some other crop which is a gross
feeder. 1t is possible in good years
on this kind Of land, with the right
kind of wheat sown at the right time
on tirst-class seed bed, to grow forty
and even fifty bushels per acre. Don't
try to make your land very rich by
heavy applications Of barn yard man
ure to the wheat directly.
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In the southern part of our territory
it is possible to grow almost as much
and with considerable less expense by
harvesting the corn, and If the land is
in proper physical condition, drilling
the wheat on the corn stubble. We
have raised thirty-fve, forty and
forty-three bushels per acre on rich
land using this method. We do not
consider it practical in the northern
part of our territory, for the reason
that to get full corn crop we must
use corn that will utilize the entire
seasons heat. AS usual thing this
cannot be removed till the last week
in September, and by the time the
farmer gathers up his corn that has
been broken off by the harvester it
will be the 1st to the 10th CT October
before he can sow his wheat. Except
in an unusually favorable season this
does not give time enough for the
wheat to germinate and cover the
ground as it should. In drilling in
wheat on cornstalks it will be almost
necessary to use a disk drill; whereas
on stubble one can use any drill he
may have on hand.
We think wheat growing will be
more profitable in the future than it
has been in the past, and it is worth
while for the farmers to study this
matter very thoroughly and feel their
way into the growing of winter
wheat.