The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1909-09-24

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The more ideal the condition,
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: pounds. The quantity should al
so be governed somewhat by the
time of year the seeding is done.
In Canada, where the seasons
are much shorter, especially AL
berta, this seeding should be
done in August, in most locali-
ties not later than the 1st to the
10Th, but in Montana, the latter
part of August. In Nebraska,
northern Colorado, southern
Wyoming, the very early part of
september. In Kansas and north
ern Oklahoma about the 18th of
September. In southern Okla
homa and central northern Texas
about the last of September.
These dates will accord with the
leverage seasons, and with ideal
conditions of well summer titled
fields the minimum quantity of
seed should be used. If the con-
dition of the soil is not perfect,
more seed should be used, and
as the season progresses in late
ness, more seed should also be
sown. Plumpness of the grain
should be considered.
/ In depositing seed in the
ground it is very desirable that
there should be about two inches
of loose soil mulch over the sur
face, then the firm soil should
really be firm, and the seed de-
posted about half an inch to an
inch into this solid soil.
| The common disk drill or hoe
drill should never be used in
ground thus fitted. The closed
heel shoe drill that makes q
V-shaped crevice in the soil and
dropping the kernels in at the
bottom of the so called double
disk drill; a drill that is con-
fstructed with two straight coul-
ters, with the two front edges
coming together at the point of
contact with the soil, and de-
vice to drop the seed at the bot
tom of the narrow crevice thus
made is most desirable. The
tendency of the two varieties of
drills last mentioned is to pack
or firm the soil in the vicinity
where the seed is deposited.
This is a desirable condition.
Now a word further upon these
special drills. If a disk or hoe
drill, or most any device is used
and a heavy rain should soon
follow, which would result in
dissolving and settling the soil
firmly around the grains, there
doubtless could be little differ
ence in the result as against the
shoe or double disk drill, under
these conditions. But the usual
condition at this season of the
year is one of little or no rain,
therefore the Importance of de-
posting the seed under such
ideal conditions as will promote
immediate termination. Also a
condition that will be favorable
to the rapid development of roots
and rootlets. These two points
are very vital and are obtained
in the most ideal condition with
the shoe or double disk drill if
the soil mas first been put in
proper condition. The latter
drill is preferable, because of its
lightness of draft. Our own ex-
perience between the Monitor
double disk drill and the closed
heel shoe drill, is that the same
team will pull the double disk
drill twelve feet wide as easily
as the shoe drill eight feet wide.
This, certainly means much to
the average farmer.
Just a word upon the question
of stooling may bring out some
ideas more clearly than we have
conveyed in the previous part of
this article. The cause of stool
ing is.not usually we'll understood.
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