The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-08-31
GOOD YIELD DEPENDS
ON GOOD FALL STAND
Three Ways of Insuring a Better Stand
of Wheat Noted by County Agent c.
c. Calkins in Giving Pointers to Nor
row County Growers.

Henry Howell told the forty farmers
that went over to Sherman county from
here that he had seen some mighty big
yields from thick stands but that he had
yet to see a big yield from thin stand.
In other words g good stand is Of first
Importance. Not only is 1t important
from the standpoint of yield but you
get your weedy wheat from your thin
stands.
Every man knows that he wants a
good stand but the question is how to
get it. Frequently the fall showers are
most too light until late in the season
and the question as to the time of sea-
| son is in doubt We believe that three
rules might be observed proftably and
which may result in getting greatly in
| creased stands. They are as follows:
l. Avoiding seed injury, due to seed
treatment.
2. Seeding early.
3. Seed at a uniform depth.
Judging from the use of copper car
Donate for the control of smut during
the past year indications are that it will
be largely adopted and if SO the question
of killing by seed treatment will be en-
tirely eliminated.
For those who use the dry treatment
the early seeding will be comparatively
safe because you will be able to place
your dry seed which is strong and vital
in the dry bed if necessary with very lit
tie danger of molding and killing of the
seed therefore your early seeding will be
much in favor. Experiments at the Moro
experiment station seem to indicate the
| dates between September 18th and 0c-
| tober 18th as the most favorable for
| winter wheats and gives the greater
yield. That was true in spite of the fact
that the wheat was treated with formal
dehyde and bluestone. A farmer who has
from two to three weeks of seeding and
who waits until the middle of October
for favorable rain will find that his
seeding is not finished until sometime in
November. While the man who begins
seeding the latter part of September will
probably have this job done before the
first rain comes and it is all ready to
start at once. There may be some chance
in early seeding but notice the fact that
did your early seeding fail to come you
could seed later in the fall. If your late
| seeding fails to come you hardly know
until spring whether to re-seed or not
and then your crop will be spring wheat.
The early seeding has shown up mighty
favorably in practically every instance
last year even where treated with blue
stone and formaldehyde.
The problem of getting the grain in
at uniform depth is a real one. 1t has
been solved by very few. Here is
| suggestion which has been used very
successfully in this county and any man
using Hoe drill can make sure of put
| ting his grain in at a uniform depth by
spending a couple of dollars and three
quarters of days work on the drill be-
fore seeding. Take inch piece of
strap iron, cut it up in lengths of about
a foot and a half long, bend it in an
shape, make one end of the shaped
iron fit the back of the hoe up and down
by slightly rounding it on the point of
an anvil. Drill hole through the strap
| iron and through the back Of the hoe to
receive stove bolt. This strap iron is
1 .
way that it permits it to run i n the
ground a couple of inches but the weight
of the hoe will be bearing down upon
the strap iron which will follow in the
track which the hoe makes . Art Erwin
followed out this scheme in seeding last
year and he states that he never had
more uniform stand. Wheat seeded early
can be seeded to great depth and with
comparative safety. For later seeding
or if moisture and weather conditions
are unfavorable some of the wheat which
was placed in too deep probably will
never emerge,
We firmly believe that by getting away
from the injury to the seed by seed
treatment, seeding early and at uni
form depth that the fall wheat yield in
Morrow county can be increased from
10 to 20 per cent on an average.