Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-03-06
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How the Grain Crops Were
Grown at the Expsri-
ment Station

The wheat crop that yielded u
bushels per acre was grown on .
field that had been 10 potatoes ~
l906, in fodder corn in 1905. and ln
clover in 1904. It was manu1td
lightly for the fodder corn. n the
This is a four-year rotation = Glover.
fodder CORP, potatoes, wheat lvV1
was the fourth year Of the rotation
and will begin over again this coming
spriDg, clover having been seeded
with the wheat.
When this field is grown to wheat
again in 1911 q much larger yield IS
expected as the soil was in a low state
of fertility when the rotation was
bepup. and this rotation is expected to
make the soil q more fertile AND.
productive soil each succeeding year,
due t, being frequently MANFRED, to
TIE clover that is grown, and to the
cultivation in the corn and potato
crop.
The ground was not plowed after
TIE potato crop. A spring toota
harrow was used in preparing tne
seed bed, the soil being q SANDY loan
and easily worked.
The seed was sown with a gram
drill, ! 1-3 bushels per acre.
Wheat is recommended to be grown.
oplv on q small scale in this section Ct
the state, for milling purposes, where
there is q -four mill, or to be fed on
the farm.
OATS: The twenty acres oats
Welding 50 IL bushels per acre was
grown on different fields and under
dlferert Il tstions. The first r. tation
was oats. barley, clover, fodder corn.
This is also q four. year rotation, each.
field being in clover once evely Ioor
years, and manfred Q 1ooiIo your.
In the second rotation there are
two fields, each in oats two years.
followed with clover. two years.
This affords comparison with the
hrst. rotation where oats is grown on
the same field only once in foul years.
where the field is manured q q
cultivated crop grown every fourtn
year.
The third rotation is on two fields:
Oats, clover pasture two years,
fodder corn. -
1907 was he first year oats was
grown in these different rotations SO
Comparisons in yield Of the different
fields is not made.
The hret rotation Is considered best,
and from which the largest yield is
expected. This kind of a rotation in
which a cultivated crop and u grass
crop is %alternated with a grain crop
gives bt st results for different rea.
sons. The fertility Of the soil is kept
more uniform. the crop is less subject
to disease than when grown con
| tinuously on the same field and the
intervention of the grass crop and
cultivated crop tends to Eeep out
weeds. =,
Oats is one Of the best yielding and
best paying grain crops to grow IN;
this section of the state.
Over 80 varieties have I: en- grown
on the Experiment. Farm and OF these
the Improved LiRowo has proved best
ard is now entirely grown for the
field crop.
BARLEY: Barley is gro n
| PRINCIPALLY for hog feed and takts the
place If corn for fattening hogs in
this section of the state.
One field of barley is Rrown in tho
rotation with oats. ss explained
above. Another field is grown 10
another. four.year rotation with
clover. peas and roots. The barley
folio vs. the root crop and 10 this
rotation promises to do exceptionally
well. .
PEAS: The growing Of peas as a
field crop has been something OF an
experiment, but the results have been
quite satisfactory. giving an average
yield of Is bushels per acre the three
past years. They are grown in the
above rotation with barley, clover ano
roots.
They are sown early in the spring.
IL bushels per acre if sowD alone, :
bushels per acre if sown with oats.
using l-2 .bushel oats. o. ..,:
In harvesting they are cut with Z
mower, and forked into piles. as eact
swath is cot. They are left in, th<
piles till thrashed, turning it need b'
when rained upon. They should bt
cut before dead ripe, ether ise muct
will be lost by Smelling. They cur
nicely IN the pile. As barley they ar
used for hog feed and produce a very
choice quality Of meat.
"A. j. MCGUIRE,
Northeast Experiment Station,
Grand Rapids. MINI
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