The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-07-14
PLANTING DRYLAND
SO' Is Narrowed and Disked
rour or Five Times in Season.
e"eVer seed is Too Thick Il viii
o'aw sustenance Out of Ground
and 1t Cannot Mature so as
to Make a Crop.

Inc question has been asked {. 4,
oest to pillow dry land in the fail or
'ne spring? | say, pillow in the fall
every time. don't care how dry Tho
slouhd Is, it matters not. If rough
.he Jumps must be broken Of course
out II Is all the better leave tho
erouhd rough all winter and the snow
anu rams come and fertilize that son
"hu pulVerize It, As soon as snripg
Voilles take a disk with a harrow ba.
una II and lap the disk and harrow
ua'I way We go lengthwlse and nc
soon as that is done turn crosswise
ana DO the same. In a short time xe
see the little weeds coming nm ora
wheh they can be seen nicely put
the disk to work again and the har.
row sometimes harrow and disk II
lour OF fve 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
lhe twenty-fifth of August until the
last OF September, just before we SOW
rail- wheat, we put the leveler IN worL
ana level 1t over so that we can see
10 an inch where the drill has run
ana 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 contract in
writing that they will not SOW more
IMAM 40 pounds to the acre and If thew
sow over a bushel they have to nav
Tor the loss in crops, because 1t will
not produce half as much as that
sown thinly. Whenever seed is too
thick In dry farming it will draw sus.
tenance out of the ground and ii can.
not mature so as to make cron
will relate one circumstance to
prove this. used to SOW rye and a
Danlshman moved into the neighbor.
mood about a mile away. He came to
me and wanted to know If had some
rye to sell for seed, said "Yes. sir,
plenty of it," He said, 81 want to
buy Is bushels" "All right, sir, you
can have it, He said, "Will you take
work for it; have no money!" |
said, Eyes. 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 five days and in
that five days you can SOW 100 acres
that will give you Is 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 dowr
and said, You have not got neal
enough rye here to SOW that ground.
yes, have" How much are you
going to SOW to the acre." Half q
bushel" He said, You don't know
nothing about raising rye" said
Il don't pretend to know much about
1t, but that is all want sowed.
why" said he, lin Denmark we SOW
three bushels to the acre" said, "I
want you to understand we are not ii
Denmark now, we are out west. Car
you SOW half bushel to the acre?'
yes, can SOW a peck If you wan
it." He did 1t and did it well. | pai(
him his Is bushels and he sowed tina
10 bushels on his own five acres
About the middle or latter end o
April | was going past one day an(
he called to me to come to his house
| drove up and he said, 81 want yol
to come over and look at my rye
went out and looked at his rye
back of the house and barn and /
stood about four inches high and jus
as thick as it could be. said, "Tha
looks nice, don't it?" He said Il an
going to show you how to raise ry'
this season. | looked at yours AM
there was one spear up here and an
other within about a foot of it, yo'
won't raise much on that" said
"Perhaps | will show you how t
raise rye"
After a while there came on SOM
nice rains and along about the latte
end of April we could see the ry
coming up. 1t grew fine and got u
as high as the top of my head and w
cut it in the fall and threshed it an
it made 27 bushels to the acre
surprised the whole country and
told the threshing man when he wen
nm to Erickson's to let me know hoy
much that rye of his threshed. In
day or two he came along and said h
tbreshed that five acres of rye and
inst made 20 bushels, four bushels t
the acre. He said the heads wer
only one inch long and the kernel
orly one.fourth as large as mine.