The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-04-28

knows that there is plenty or potas'
SUM but the nitrogen and phosphorus
must be applied, so he decided to buy
rock phosphorus and apply it with
and to supply nitrogen BY
alfalfa, soy beans or clover in a rota'
ton for all three add nitrogen by
bacteria which grow in nodules on
the roots.
Mr.. Jones runs a rotation OF alfalfa,
corr with soy beans, wheat, Oats
which keeps up the nitrogen supply.
He burns all weeds along fences
where harmful insects might harbor
for it means more money for him. He
also looks to the eradication of bar
berry bushes, which harbor just over
winter for there is no other method
to kill it.
Mr.. Jones now looks to his seed
wheat. He has selected Marquis on
cou Of its high milling qualities.
He takes a handful and roughly exam.
ines it and finds weed seeds which he
must clean out by tanning. His fan
ming mill cleans grain according to
shape, weight and size and to get the
very best Of seed, he fans it twice
and then makes a termination test
to see what per cent will grow.
To perform this test, he takes a
blotter seed tester and lays a mum
Der Of kernels in each square and folds
the two ends owe them and vets the
blotter. After three days he exam.
ines them and finds ninety-eight per
cent has terminated, but there is a
trace of smut, so he has to treat
the seed with formaldehyde for the
smut Is in the kernel and cant be
reached in any other way.
Mr.. Jones is satisfied with a $500
termination and free from weeds,
smut and scab, SO he looks to the
preparation OF the seed bed, which
is to be on fall blowing for the freez-
ing and thawing has crumbled the
tlou OF mat IL pCu 4 NC compact
and not full of air spaces.
Mr.. Jones discing, he drags it twice
wise to make the surface smooth and
to develop a soil mulch which will
check evaporation.
Mr.. Jones is ready to sow the wheat
now, so he bitches on to the drill, ties
a wagon behind and loads the wheat
which he has sacked to prevent 1t
from getting foul seed into it again
and for easy handling into the wagon
and goes to the field, where he leaves
the sacks along the end OF the field
and unties the wagon. Then he oper-
ates the drill a bit to get all seed
which might be in it out and to adjust
so that it will SOW about five pecks
to the acre.
lie prefers to drill with the
drill, he can plant the seeds deep
enough so that there is plenty u
Tor the seed to terminate
ana not SO deep as to make it dim
cut Tor the young plants TO get to
the surface while ii ne sowed broad
cast, me seeds would be on the sur
lace subject 10 birds and would not
TIL they had been covered.
After the drill is ready, he ILLS the
hnX ann GfnItG nnt nlurnxy In nysn,
enough to catch all the ground anu
not leave a space unseeded.
After the grain is seeded, he drags
1t again lengthways to complete the
soil mulch and cover it up good. Mr..
Jones leaves his wheat then to har-
vest time and takes care OF his COIN
aid other grain.
Along toward the last of July or
the first Of August, Mr.. Jones $ wheat
to turn yellow and needs con-
siderable watching for he wants to
cut it as 0 as 1t has reached the
hard dough stage, for if left, it would
shatter.
Mr.. Jones uses a large binoer and
shocks it as soon as it Is cut to pre-
vent it from getting rained on and
,olor bleached by the SUM-.
He desires a good sized shock with
IS few heads exposed to weather as
possible, so he chooses the nine bun
lie shock, which has eight bundles
tanding upright and one put on top
or a cap to shed rain and keep the
un off.
After the grain has stood in the
hook for a couple Of weeks, he stacks
t because there will be only a few
exposed to weather in each
tack while in the shock most Of the
are exposed.
He knows that it is more work to
tack, but that the better quality of
he grain pays for the extra work
many times over for the milling quail
ty has been preserved while If he
al loft In tho SHOCK fhera would have