The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-27
FARGO MAN
ISSUES STATEMENT
Tells How to Plant and Care
of Various Kinds of
Grain.

ment of the North Dakota agricul-
tural college, has issued the follow
ing:
Fall wheat and fail rye distributed
the work more evenly at seeding time,
at harvest time, and in thrcshing. The
winter wheat and winter rye can be
threshed before the spring grain is
ready to cut. Winter grain land is
then ready to pillow during any tim.
that can be spared for it very early
in the season which helps the chance
Tor a crop the following year. They
viii keep wild oats and kinghead
down and in this way clean up the
land considerably. Where they are
at home n do we'll, the yields of
much heavier than those of spring
wheat and spring rye. Their season
for filling is earlier than the dry
weather and rusting periods common
ly occur.
The turkey red winter wheat which
has been grown in the northwest for
several years is the best seed tina |
nav" been ahl" To find. II is Il hard
winter wheat i'm grade, and withstandS
any other sort thai | have tested.
Winter wheat must have a snow
covering during the winter to survive.
hero the rainfall is sufficient to
start the wheat in stnbble land, that
plan of seeding has brought the larg-
est portion of the winter wheat
through without winter killing of any
plan that ! have Observed. stuhhlc
land should be mellow. rich II rea-
sonabiy clean. however, To be sown
to winter wheat.
1t may he disced Very lightly with
the disc set almost straight, but even
this much of hreaking down of the
stuhhle will cause the winter wheat
TO Kill u under sever conditions.
1t may be soWn in oorn fields be-
tween tho rows by using a one-horse
drill. If the corn STALKS AT" left stand
ing it will usually live through the
winter in any part of thu" state. Mha."
corn is cut and the stuhhie left short.
however, it trequontlN kills out.
Even where one-fourth of the orr
stalks are left standing TOO little snow
is held for the wheat TO be carried
through severe winters satisfactorily.
The winter of 1911 and 1912 was
Very hard m winter grain and less
than half oI the winter wheat made
a crop when seeded in corn and all
of the stalks left standing.
One-horSe drills can be had which
VIII seed winter wheat in corn ground
Very Well but il is a SLOW process and
must be lone at a time when labor
Is not expensive.
Sowing barley with winter wheat
AS n means of protecting il has PROV
on unsuccessful. The barley willis
down from freezing and affords little
protection.
No. $50 winter " hyed up by this
station is the hardest and best WELD
ing rye that ! have found. Winter
rye has usually survived without any
protection from stubble or other
growth.
The latter part of august. or. in the
cast part of the state, September |
IS generally found to be the best time
to sow winter wheat and winter rye
In III" dried distric cts earlier seeding
seems to be an advantage. although
our results are no! uniform. Vt the
Nillist"n and Edseley su~l,-stations
seeding as early AS the middle of Au-
gust seems to hc satisfactory, while
at Dickinson earlier seeding did rot
do as Well as that sown the first part
Of September.
In dry seasons winter grain has a
much moro difficult time to get
through the winter hen rainfals are
frequent during tho fail. Winter rye
VIII usually go through the winter
without protection if sOwn early.
1t Is commonly safe from winter KILL
ing if sown in corn and the stalks
'N4' Ifi'oI VI SttlllG IL
IN standing corn is heavy and tedious.
NO winter grain should be snwn in
WeedT stuhblc or whore the ground
is not mellow. Sow winter rye at he
rate of six pecks per acre. Sow win
ter wheat at the rate of five pncks
per acre in the east third of the state.
Further west lighter seeding MAY b.,
advisable.
Put winter grain in at \ depth of
Nv" and one-hali to three inches or
even somewhat deeper if that is neccs-
sarN to get it into moist ground.
Winter wheat is still in the expert
nlfnt stage. Rye can he soun with
reasonable assurance of winterjn.
through the average winter if given
GOOD conditions.
] wish to cali attention to tho fact
that there il almost always some VOL
unt"er rye tho year following the pro-
ductlon of q crop of it on a field.
which reduces the value of a wheat
crop produced on it.
If soWn to barley the volunteer rvo
is OF little consequence and the CROP
is harvested so early as to catch tire
rye seed before ii can shell upon tic
ground Il second time.