The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-01-23
SUNMER FALL0W AIDS
Profitable for Fan Wheat, pota-
toes and Garden.
Soil Should Be Worked Only Whi'
Moist, Except in Diskln0-Mors
Agricultural Science Needed
in tbs Growing of Wheat.

Consider summer following profit
able only for fall wheat, potatoes and
garden. Wheat must be grown here
with IS inches of rainfall, writes Albert
Weaver of St Francis. Kan, in the
Farm and Home. Summer tillage or
fallow is the best method to meet this
condition. By. thorough summer till
age four to six inches Of the seasons
rainfall can be stored in the subsoil-
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. II 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
be a small one SO that 1t may be-
quickly covered while conditions arc
right.
had 20 acres of fall wheat under
bare summer tillage methods in l311,
that made IL bushels to the acre. In
1912 had IS acres, bare summer till
age, fall wheat that yielded is bushels
an acre, and another 4S acres sum-
mer titled yield 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 1870 acres
of bare summer titled fall wheat that
made 35 bushels to the acre. and In
1909 j. e. Payne had 100 acres that
yielded 37h bushels an acre. The
fields was "a bushels an acre for the
last four years, all on old ground.
Flowing twice is possibly as good al
any method for bare summer tillage. !
double disk In April, pillow In May and
again the latter part Of July, giving
the ground some additional cultivG
ton.
By reason OF the subsoil being wet
1t freezes and loosens it up to take In
the spring rains. Besides freezing dis
intergates the soil particles.
| With a good seeded stored WITH
moisture at seeding time, 25 to 60
pounds an acre OF clean, choice seed
is usually enough. Seed wheat SHOULD
be selected from fields making heavy
| yields, and ripenlng 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 thd
| spring, to get the start of the weeds,
| and to ripen early. AS soon as wheat
begins to cover the ground In the
thoroughly two or more times to kill
all weeds and to conserve the mois-
ture. 1t Is best to do this after q
shower. | have narrowed wheat the
last four years with good results.
There Is more agricultural science
needed in the growing of wheat than
any other crop. | believe wheat grow
I 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.