The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-11
METHODS OF TILLAGE
RESULTS GIVEN FROM NORTH
OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS.
Superiority Of Fall piowed Land
Proved Invariably by at Least One
RusheI Increase Per Aere-Ma
nurIno 10 Also Good.

Data Ia rather hard to obtain and none
could be secured bearing OH corn, the
great crop of Iowa. The results given
are from North Dakota, Oklahoma
and Kansas.
In experiments with fall w. spring
plowed land. the results invariably
prove the superiority OF the fall plowed
land by at least one more bushel per
acre.
Tho Campbell system. or the inter.
tillage system was not found ut all
practical, for the crops were less and
he expense high. ON fall prowed
land, the yield was Ga bushels less
and SAT- less profit. on spring
plowed. II vas even more marked, be.
Ing so bushels less. and s5.77 less
profit. by mean OF extra tlllage on
fall plowed and spring plowed land,
we get the following: On fall plowed.
four extra borrowings and one rolling
gave "a bushels more wheat than tho
ordinary treatment. and S2.02 moro
profit. On spring plowed land. one
sub'sur'lce packing. one rolling and
" borrowings. gave 2.5 more bush.
els than the ordinary treatment. ard
ll.Ol more profit. II pays TO work
the land. These results are from the
North Dakota station. At Oklahoma
similar results have been obtained, but
they are here even more marked. Here
early and late fall blowing entered
more thoroughly into the test, and the
early plowed land gave the better re-
suits. on account of the increased Till.
age holding moro moisture, and kill
Ing weeds better. Land plowed In
July at Oklahoma yielded 23.l bush.
els per acre OF wheat. while that OF
n OF the adjoining fields plowed In
September gave l6.S bushels per acre.
Manuring Is also good. as MANFRED
plats at Oklahoma yielded 27.5 bush.
els per acre against li.5 OF unna
nured land which had grown wheat
continuously for seven years. and one
plot MANFRED and another not. Ma.
nured plot yielded 800 bushels per
acre, unmanured IL bushels per acre.
At the North Dakota experiment sta
ton shallow blowing ave u bushel
less per acre and % cents less profit
on fall blowing, and one bushel less
and 40 cents less profit on spring
plowcd. The s~ub.surface packer gave
"a cents more profit per acre on both
fall and spring plowed land. Harrow
Ing right after blowing gave 46 cents
more profit per acre. ~SubHsoiling gave
a little better yield but II did not pay
for the extra cost. Disk blowing gave
the best results in a large series OF
experiments the first year, but later
II dwindled away rapidly. Rolling
with u smooth roller after sowing. gave
l2 bushels more per acre and 5s
cents more profit. Next year there was
an increase OF 10 per cent on fall
plowed land and a decrease OF % per
cent on spring plowed land. This
phenomenon is not explained, Wheat
rolled and narrowed just after sowing.
and then narrowed again as the wheat
was coming up gave two bushels in
crease In yield and 70 cents in profit.
on spring plowed land. In 1899 yield
was increased 2.5 bushels by harrow.
ing when the wheat was six inches
high. II also took less water for this
plot.
II was computed that n inch Of
rain would make two bushels OF wheat
under favorable conditions. SO Il Is
readily seen that the increased till
age is simply q saving OF water.
Rotation of crops is valuable. Wheat
land gave seven bushels OF wheat per
acre while adjoining corn land gave
rs bushels wheat after potatoes yielded
"a bushels, and fallowed land 30 bush.
els. The same year. on July gath, corn
land and cultivated fallow land con-
tanned mor water by nearly three
inches In the first three feet OF soil.
than wheat land,
This same land, on November 18th.
after ~ inches OF rain had fallen In
August, September and October, was
tested for moisture and found as fol.
lows: Summer fallowed land con.
tanned owe three inches more avail.
able water than wheat land, and corn
ground two inches. Standing water
was also two feet lower In wheat land
than In corn land. This, however,
became re'hulusteu later on, so tnere
was no noticeable difference In crops
OF succeeding years, There are few
experiments in regard to tillage OF
corn, but Illinois and North Dakota
have shown that In cultivating. shall.
low cultivation early and later. Is pre-.
ferable to the opposite. The Kansas
station a number OF years ago tried
an experiment with tillage on corn. by
different number of times OF cultivat.
ing. ranging from two to six, The ex.
pertinent was satisfactory as It was a
very wet season and there was little
difference In yield. There was also
the objection that nothing but the
large shoveled c%ultivator was used and
no tillage carried on after the corn
was too high for the ordinary Guilt
vator.
Another interesting experiment was
with SO acres OF barley which was
divided into Ave seven-acre plots. All
were plowed and received various
treatments prior to the seeding. can.