Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1910-07-22
PLANTING DRY LAND
Soil Is Narrowed and Disked
Four or Five Times in Season.
Whenever Seed Is Too Thick II VIII
Draw sustenanee Out OF Ground
and u Cannot Mature so as
to Make a Crop,

The question has been asked is II
best to pillow dry land In the fall or
the spring. | say. pillow In the fall
every time. | don't care how dry the
ground Is, II matters not II rough
the Jumps must be broken of course.
ground rough all winter and the snow
and rains come and fertlllze that soil
and pulverize IT, AS soon as spring
comes | take a disk with harrow be-
hind II and lap the disk and harrow
half way. We 60 lengthwlse and as
soon as that is done turn crosswise
and do the same. In short time we
zee the little weeds coming up and
when they can be seen nicely put
the disk TO work again and the har-
row. | sometimes harrow and disk II
four or Ave times In the season, writes
George L. Farrell In Field and Farm.
We do not allow weeds to grow on
the ground. We cultivate and from
the twenty-flfth OF August until the
last Of September, just before we SOW
fall wheat, we put the leveler to work
and level II over so that we can see
to an inch where the drill has run
and we do not miss any of them. We
cannot afford to miss and we SOW 35
pounds to the acre and II the ground
Is very rich we SOW little more. But
make my tenants sign a contract In
writing that they will not SOW more
than 40 pounds to the acre and II they
SOW over bushel they have to pay
for the loss In crops, because Il will
not produce half as much as that
sown thlnly. Whenever seed Is too
thick In dry farming II will draw sus.
tenance out of the ground and 1t can.
not mature so as to make a crop.
will relate one circumstance to
prove this. used to SOW rye and n
Danishman moved into the neighbor-
hood about mile away. He came to
me and wanted to know II had some
rye to sell for seed. said, Yes. sir,
plenty of It." He said, 81 want to
buy 10 bushels" "All right, sir, you
can have It," He said, "Will you take
work for It; have no money!"
said, Yes. sir, would rather have
work than money" IL want Is bush.
els How much can you sow in a
day." Twenty acres" "All right,
sir you are just the man want.
will give you three bushels of rye a
day and board you for Ave days and In
that five days you can SOW 100 acres
that will give you 10 bushels of rye"
"All right. sir, that's good pay; I'll
do IT,"
He came along and had the rye all
sacked ready TO SOW. He came down
and said. You have not got near
enough rye here to SOW that ground. p"
Yes. have" How much are you
going to SOW to the acre?" Half a
bushel." He said, You don't know
nothing about raising rye" said.
Il don't pretend to know much about
it, but that is all want sowed. 4"
why" said he. lin Denmark we SOW
three bushels to the acre" said. IL
want you to understand we are not In
Denmark now. we are out west. Can
you SOW half bushel To the acre."
Yes, | can SOW a peck II you want
IT," He did II and did II well. paid
him his Is bushels and he sowed that
Is bushels ON his own five acres.
About the middle or latter end of
April was going past one day and
he called to me to come to his house.
| drove up and he said, 81 want you
to come over and look at my rye"
went out and looked at his rye
back of the house and barn and 1t
stood about four inches high and Just
as thick as II could be said, THAT
looks nice. don't it?" He said. Il am
going to show you how to raise rye
this season. | looked at yours and
there was one spear up here and an.