The Monroe journal., 1922-10-31
THINKS |. ]. Smith WILL
GET A Big WHEAT YIELD
Mingate Man Has Fine. Firm Seed
bed, Sowing HOMEGROWN Wheat,
and Getting Done at Right Time
EVERYBODY SHOULD PLANT
: IN NOVEMBER, SAYS BROOM
Wheat Sown the First of Next Month.
Tie Declares, VIII Yield Much Bet.
ter Than When Sown Later; Paws
to Use Acid Phosphate For Wheat:
Sow Home Grown Wheat If Yon
Can Get IL.
By T. J. w. BROOM

Now Is the time to sow wheat
| Wheat sown the first of November
VIII yield much better than when il is
sown later Our average yields of
wheat are entirely too low in this
eounty-six to eight bushels per acre.
Inc low average yield is due mainly
10 the following causes: Late seeding.
improper preparation of the seed bed,
the quality and variety of seed and
where grown, and poor land.
Wheat sown November lst, will
make three to- five bushels more per
acre than when sown December list
taking a ten year average. In pre-
pairing the seed bed the best imrle-
ment to use is the disc harrow. On
corn, cotton or pea land a couple of
d'skings will usually be sufficient, fol-
lowed with section harrow to smooth
the land before drilling. The main
point IN making the seed bed is to
get 1t fine and firm. We were on the
farm of Mr.. l.. j. Smith, in the VIM
gate section, last week and he was
preparing cotton land for wheat. He
was gong over the rows with disk
harrow, lifting the stalks with plow,
running harrow across rows to level.
and then going over again with disk
narrow. His seed bed was fine and
nrm, he was sowing home grown seed
and getting it done in time. The land
had been improved by system of
crop rotation which included legumes.
and we predict that Mr.. Smith will
average fifteen to twenty bushels of
wheat per acre.
Homegrown seed will yield 20 to |
20 per cent more than northern grown
seed. The N. c. Experiment Station
finds this to be true. A number of
Union county farmers have found il
to be true. Sow home grown seed if |
you can get it. Purple Straw and
Red May wheat will yield more on
lants not capable of producing more
than ten or twelve bushels per acre.
These varieties, being early, are not
80 injured by rust as the later varie-
Land that is capable of producing
bale of cotton, or forty to fifty
bushels Of corn, is capable of making
eighteen to twenty-five bushels of
wheat, and will do it if sown in time.
IN a well prepared seed bed, with
rood seed.
1t pays to use acid phosphate for
ne wheat, and on most of the soils
# the county it will pay to use pot
lsh. We suggest fertilizer CARRYING
en- per cent phosphoric acid and four
'er cent potash on the Alamance. or
Fellow clay soils, and not less than
wo per cent potash for the red clay
oils.
1t is the acid phosphate that makes
ne grain, potash gives healthiness to
ne straw and plumpness to the grain,
nitrogen develops the straw, induces
toollng and gives length to the head
Where wheat follows corn and soy
cans, or corn and cotton that was !
receded by clover, or corn and cow ..
cas- or any legume crop, there will :
sually be enough nitrogen for the !,
neat. But on clean cultivated lands !;
here legumes have not been grown !
the rotation, it will be necessary to :
Sc some nitrogen. 1t is best to ap-
!y this in the form of nitrate of soda
arly in March, however, when nj
'ate of soda is to be applied in the
orlng it should be reinforced with :
nd phosphate and potash applied In
he fall at seeding time. =