Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-26
WHEAT AND RYE.
Increased Acreage and Higher Yield Is
Asked by Government.
BY j. G. McAmis,
Specialist in Agronomy.

0PCCidii5b III ASIOuCuIs
A billion bushels OF wheat next year
and eighty-tive million bushels of rye
This ID what your Uncle Sam has ask
ed. He needs them. He must hav'
them. He has asked tennessee t
grow l.OSO. 200 acres OF wheat and SO.
900 acres of rye as her share.
Since splendid price for wheat hal
been guaranteed, experienced growers
will volunteer almost double their as
ual number of acres. Thousands who
have never grown wheat before will
club together for the purchase of ma
chinery and seed. They will grow rye
too, because their country needs 1t anG
how can the price Of rye be low wher
wheat is high? Both make bread.
/. The Volunteer State must not take
any chances on BAD season, or on the
HesslaA fly, or ON car shortage, which
will cut off our supply from the wheat
betl. We will take care OF ourselves,
our Southern neighbors and our SOL
diers. Begin your part now. Not only
increase your acreage, but your yield
per acre.
PREPARE THE SOIL WELL.
Begin breaking today. Store the
soil full of moisture. Destroy the
weeds. Let the air into the soil to
make plant food ready for use later.
Give the sell time to settle. Use the
subsoil plo.g instead of the turn pillow.
break the sil entirely across from fur
row to turruw and SIX or eight inches
deep. The subsoil pillow leaves no air
spaces underneath to prevent the rise
OF water from below. 1t does leave
the most fertile soil on top where the
seed are planted. Double-disk immedl-
ately after breaking and continue to
use the disk or splketooth harrow after
every rain until seeding time. If you
have no subsoiler, or if you cannot fin
ish your breaking promptly, double.
disk the land before you start, to keep
1t mellow during the breaking season.
II the turn pillow Is necessary to turn
under weeds, cut them thoroughly with
a disk before turning.
FERTILIZERS FOR GRAINS.
Fill the soil full of fertilizer. Apply
phosphate literally by using $50 to 200
lbs. of acid phosphate on all acres.
Apply phosphate with drill or scatter
it broadcast by hand before seeding.
Most soils of the state will be unable
to produce satisfactory crops without
phosphate. Give it to them.
NITROGEN.
Practically all upland soils need nj
trogen badly. Apply so to 100 lbs. of
nitrate of soda to the acre when the
wheat starts growth IN the spring.
The cheapest sources of nitrogen are
nitrate of soda and suphate of ammo
MIA. Nitrate of soda burns the leaves
t applied when they are damp. Be
'ure to put it on when the plants are
Try. Nitrate contains about Is IL per
.ent of nitrogen. and sulphate contains
lbout 20 per cent of nitrogen, and at
present, both materials are expensive.
When the price per pound of nitrogen
in any material is far above
twenty-five cents, it is not likely to
eturn a profit. heterogeneous fertil-
zers will pay only on land low in it,
upply of nitrogen and humus.
LIME HELPS WHEAT.
Use one ton Of burned lime or two
obs Of crushed limestone to the acre
|isksd into the soil before seeding
ime. Two dollar wheat will repay big
,refits for lime and most soil will not
row clover without 1t. For small
Irsas. place the lime IN small piles In |
egular check rows about every twelve ,
teps apart. Throw q wheel barrow
bad in each pile then scatter uniform
= from the piles with shovels. This 10
ot ~ tedious as it sounds. Try it.
WASTE NO STABLE MANURE.
Apply it as fast as it 10 produced in !
ght applications over large areas In
tead Of in heavy applications on small
reas. A top-dressing of manure in
inter or early spring IL q great help
. both wheat and young stands Of clo-
or and grass.
SOWING The SEED.
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