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tnrday, May 27,r1916f SUNNY HOME SUGGESTIONS What Poor Seed Cost Us in low Yields Shocking the Small Grain Getting the Twb-Bore Cultivator" to Do Goo&yfM-Xiyt; KNOW farms where . crops' of wheat have been made, from the . , i tnr. tpn vears.- nn canie swwu ui avw-,.. ---T V"- I f ...t,:Vi Woe vipIHpH as miirh as riweivc uusiicis per , acte. . The- busi-; ; ness has of coarse . been a money-losing;-: proposition, looked ' at " from the dollar stand point, "for there is no possible 'profit v to be made, on the ordinary farm in mr. FRENCH : the f humid sec tions, growing "such crops of wheat. Rnt it is of the seed 1 wish to write at this time, for I -believe : men are making a big mistake who are, year after year, using seed from crops of wheat that produced below a profita ble yield ; the practice; hi my opinion, ' tending to fix m the strain of wheat, to a certain extent, a low producing habit. It is a quite commonly, accept ed theory among cattlemen that if animals through many generations, because of lack of proper feed, are not given the opportunity to ap proach 4he maximum of their ability occasionally along any line in which they have been especially bred, that the strain gradually loses something . of its former productive,, ability ami it." becomes poor practice to use animals for reproductive purposes thaf come from such strains. And if this Is trueand this seems the sensible view to take of the matter .when we consider how breads have vbeen brought to their 'State of excellence--then why may not the same thing be true concerning plants? The late T. B. Terry, of Ohio, who was, in a small way, a very successful wheat grower, for years threshed separately and saved for seed the grain grown on the most productive spots m the fields, and at no time for 20 years did lie use for seed wheat that produced less than 30 bushels per acre. I would not, however, be understood as contend ing that grain from a. field that for one year, under adverse conditions, produced a poot jyield would not the next season produce a good crop Tin der normal conditions ; the 'point I! would make being this: that, to my mind, long continued -use of seed that had never had the opportunity to do its best would tend to Iowct yields than would be secured from seed that had, through some of its immediate ancestors, inherited the nabit of do ing its best once m a while. - , :., My idea would be to start with a good yielding strain-of seed, then by Mr. Terry's method keep up the im provement that the, originators of the strain bred into it Then an occa-, sional resort to Individual head: se-' lection would not he out of place ""vv 4.c grain grower was extra : ambitious ; this meaning.simply going lurugn the helds of ripe grain and fleeting many of the best yielding heads produced under field condi tions. And what is true of wheat is true also of other small grains. "- And while on the subject of grains, J would like to urge better attention to the shocking of the grain crops. Many fields I saw last; season where one-third to one-half of . the shocks were either flat on the. ground, or so Dadly leaned; as to allow water to ; reach practically cyery Diradle in the shock.. And this means, when rain ca ches shocks in that fix, that there 11 be rnore or less sprouted grain, and when wheat has once sprouted Jts value is very much -lessened for milling purposes. - The writer has shocked more or n,Slgrln evcfy year save two for the Past 36 years,. and .he .found many years aero that a eVmv UP by a lazy man would seldom stand long: . Every bundle should go into its particular place with some muscle and brain driving it home. The many methods of shocking that I have tried during the past years have all been discarded except one. The shock of wheat is started with two good sound bundles set "down firmly side by side, with the. tops firmly pressed together. Then one bundlelis added to each side making four in a row. Now a brace is set on either side of the, four di rectly in the middle. Then when the four corners are filled, with each bun dle leaning toward the center of the J shock, a round shock of ten bundles is complete, and then two caps, with the tops well spread, and laid flat on top of the shock the butts of one covering the tops of the Other the shock is .finished, ' and if the muscle and; brains mentioned above have been used- the shock will stand through any ordinary storm and the I grain be preserved dry. No tool that our readers write me about seems to cause as much trouble to operate as the two-horse cultiva tor. A hundred men have-written me, during the past six months, that their help cannot be taught to do good work with the riding cultivator, and at the same time keep the shovels out of the rows of plants, I suspect much of the trouble is with the driving of the teams. I be gan to use the two-horse cultivator 34 years ago, long before the present easily adjusted machines were on the market, and the most of the guid ing of the cultivator gangs needed at that time to be done by main strength -and awkwardness. So. I easily learn ed to take a good carriage whip afield with me when cultivating, and with the lines adjusted so the horses heads would be pulled just a little closer to gether than usual, just a light touch with the straight whip would remind the lagging horse that his proper place was just abreast of -his mate and the same distance from the tow of corn as the other horse. The team handled carefully In. this way did the greater part of the steering of the gangs, and those who have been al lowing their "horses to slop all over the rows will find, in this hint a cure for much of their trouble, I believe. vrv : '.v, ,:.. .v:v:V.. Others m the sandy sections prin cipally have complained that the shovel or disk cultivators would not keep away the vines and weeds this kind of soil is particularly burdened with in subjection. Many have over come this trouble by equipping -their machines with wide cutting blades similar to the heels weep used on sin gle cultivators. A. L. FRENCH. Don't Waste Fertilizer on Weeds FERTILIZER is too expensive this year to feed to weeds. The case is well put in this Clems on College, bul letin: " "Owing to the comparatively small amount of fertilizer used on crops "this year, and to the lengthy drouth, care should be taken to see that the crops get as much of it as possible. There is not enough for the grass and weeds and the corn and cotton too. A more frequent shallow culti- vation, and the keeping down of grass and weeds will enable the corn and cotton to'take up more fertilizer, The crop needs all the moisture it' can get, and shallow cultivation helps to keep a mulch on the land and. so con serve what moisture there is present, as well as to kill the weeds and grass which use a considerable 'amount of -water, which is needed for the corn and cotton Don't let the crop starve or go thirsty for lack of sufficient shallow cultivation." (9)K 705 ." "Does the landlady give yon your meals on time?" (Sadly) "Yes, but she won't trust me much longer." Judge. I think It safe to say that yours Is the best farm paper in the world and I positive ly couldn't miss reading it. Ruth -Ivy, Ce dar Bluff, Miss.- r- The man who's wise, will advertise. B.V.D.s And A River Breeze Isn't This Great On A Hot Day? 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The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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