Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-11-28
SUMMER FALLOW AIDS.
Profitable for Fall Wheat, Potatoes
and Garden.

Consider summer following profit
able only for fall wheat, potatoes and
garden. Wheat must be grown here
with 18 inches of rainfall, writes Al
bert Weaver, of St. Francis, Kansas,
in the Farm Home. Summer tillagc
or fallow is the best method to meet
this condition. By thorough summer
tillage four to six inches of the sea
sons rainfall can be stored in the sub
soil This vets down four to six feet.
In favorable seasons, the rainfall being
above the average, and the harvest
an early one, it is possible to store
nearly this amount of water in the
subsoil by intensive summer tillage
working the soil Immediately after re
moving the grain.
The soil should be worked only
while moist, except in disking. If not
wet by the latter part of July, better
give up attempting to store the sub
soil with sufficient moisture for fall
seeding. In any case, the field should
DC SDl'tI ouN 81 lIldt II may DS
quickly covered while conditions are
right.
| had 20 acres of fall wheat under
bare summer tillage methods in 1911,
that made II bushels to the acre. In
1912 had 65 acres, bare summer till
age, fall wheat that yielded Is bushels
an acre, and another AZ acres sum
mer titled yielded 10 bushels an acre
| do not know of as good yields
around here on old ground, either in
1911 or 1912 In 1910 Asa Payne had
$50 acres of bare summer titled fall
wheat that made IS bushels to the
acre, and in 1910 J. f. Payne had 100
acres that yielded 37H bushels an
acre. The average yield from these
different fields was "a bushels an acre
for the last four years, all on old
ground
Flowing twice is possibly as good
as any method for bare summer till
age double disk in April, pillow in
May and again the latter part OF July.
giving the ground some additional
cultivation.
By reason of the subsoil being wet
it freezes and loosens it up to take
in the spring rains. Besides freezing
disintegrates the soil particles.
With good seedbed stored with
moisture at seeding time. Is to 80
pounds an acre of clean, choice seed
is usually enough. Seed wheat should
be selected from fields making heavy
yields, and ripening early Some of
our Red Turkey wheat seems to have
run out and the yields are low even
under favorable conditions.
| think deep seeding is best. and
should be done between September IS
and October /. 1t may be even better
to seed earlier than this. Wheat
should get well rooted and should
fairly cover the ground before winter
sets in. Early seeding puts the crop
in best condition for growth early in
the spring, to get the start of the
weeds, and to ripen early. AS soon
as wheat begins to cover the ground
in the spring think it should be har-
rowed thoroughly two or more times
to kill all weeds and to conserve the
moisture 1t is best to do this after
shower | have narrowed wheat the
lost four years with good results
There is more agricultural science
needed in the growing of wheat than
any other crop. believe wheat grow
ing along the foregoing lines can be
made very profitable in our section of
the country, and the sooner our farm
ers adopt similar methods the better
off they will be.