The ' TJcbrasKa ' Independent
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JULY 12, 1906
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I Agricultural ePartJ
,We cannot urge too strongly upon our
farmer readers in Nebraska to at once
give due consideration to the matter
of winter wheat raising.
We would urge those in such sec
tions of the state as have not yet be
come famous for - winter wheat that
they prepare their ground and sow
from ten to fifty acres of this cereal
this fall. All of the state of Nebraska
is adapted to the growth of winter
wheat. It is the surest crop that can
be raised in the state if the ground is
properlv prepared and the seeding U
done at the proper time. Not only is
ft niir surest cron. but our soil and
climate h specially adapted to it. The
acreage yield of winter wheat in Ne
tivockn ta renter than that of any
l U H l M
other state in the middle west al
though the to'al yield of Kansas ex
ceeds that of Nebraska on account of
its much larger acreage, but Nebraska
leads in per acre yield. " .
Many who have tried winter wheat
have not made a great success of it
' for the reason that they did not pre
pare the ground as it should be pre
pared and did not. put their wheat into
the ground in the proper way or
at the proper time. Winter wheat
phould be sown before the 15th of Sep
tember. The seed beds should be
made as fine and as firm as possible
. and the seed put in with a press drill
Instead of being sown' broadcast Ex
perience has proven that seed put in
with a press drill yields on an average
ten bushels to the acre more than
seed sown broadcast; in this one
item can be found the difference be
tween success or failure.
fiood results are often obtained from
seeding done as late as 'the middle of
October and sometimes even later, out
snrh is due to the accident of a favor
able season and conditions which can-
not be depended upon. The way to
crop is to prepare the ground early
and put the seed into the grouna m
time to catch the early fall rains and
have an abundant time to grow and
develop its root system.
A winter wheat crop is worth on an
average double as much as an oat
crop and is not so hard upon the land.
This is proven by the fact that one
crop of wheat can succeed another for
a series of years on the same land
without diminution in the yield which
is not true of oats in this country or
any other. Again all of the farms can
be cleaned from obiioxious weeds such
as ceckleburrs, etc.,"": by raising two
or three crops of wheat in succession
on the same land.
An objection will be found to sub
stituting wheat to oats " in the minds
of many farmers on. the ground that
the oat. straw is much more vaiunDie
for feed than the wheat straw. But
when it is remembered that four or
five acres devoted to sorghum as a
forage crop will furnish an abundant
sunnlv of as eood if not better iorage
than straw of any kind, it will be seen
that the forage Question need not
cause anv farmer to determine in fa
vor of the doubtful and less profitable
crop, oats, against the surer ana more
tirofitable croo. winter wheat.
In urtrine the matter of winter
wheat unon the farmers of Nebraska
we desire to lav great empnasis upon
the importance of early seeding. Ke
member that The Independent does
not urge that winter wheat is a sure
cron in Nebraska unless the seeding
be done early, in which case we hold
that the crop is proof "against all ac
cidents in this climate except or nan
alone.
shlnmenta from the United States At
lantic coast to Europe numbered 365,
000. It will be seen in the table be
low that London is the principal des
tination of cattle shipped from New
York, Philadelphia, and Newport
News, while the consignments from
Boston, Baltimore, and Portland are
sent, mostlv to TJvernool. The 41J245
cattle consigned to "Other United
Kingdom ports" include 17,245 sent to
Glasgow, 16,323 to Manchester, 4,148
to Bristol, 2,921 to Hull, and 687 to
Cardiff. ' ' -
HORSES ON GRASS ALL; RIGHT
Much is being written these days
and published in the farm papers about
the care of farm horses, and the great
consideration seems to be the main
tenance of flesh. It is, indeed, grati
fying to a man to know cr to see his
horses keep up in flesh during the
work season, and it is one of the most
difficult things the average farmer baa
to contend with. If we succeed in
keeniner nn the flesh and also getting
a satisfactory amount of work with
out overheating or impairing the di
gestive system, we ought to be
proud of the work. A man that can
do this is competent and should be
licensed to run a school to teach the
proper care of the horse. : Thousands
of horses each year die in the early
spring from indigestion after begin
ning the spring work in apparently
the best of condition. Now, in all the
advice given to owners on the care of
work horses I have not found one that
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DRY FARMING
.Last fall a man of our acquaintance
thought he would do a little dry fam
ine, but instead of following the Camp
bell system, he struck out on a plan
of his own. He followed the harvest
with the disk As soon as the ground
was in condition he disked it again
and then begun plowing. He plowed
five rods wide around a forty-acre
uiece and then for some reason stop-i
ped for a while. During this time an
enormous growth of weeds came up
on the unnlowed piece. The field
was literally covered to a height of
fifteen inches. Then he went on with
his nlnw and turned the. weeds under
as a fertilizer, but the weeds had sap
ped the moisture from that ground,
so that it. broke ud into lumps. He
worked this Diece thereafter exactly
the same as the strip around the out
side. At harvest time the outside strip
had two and one-half times as much'
grain as the inside. This man never
t.hnusrht. he was doing anything to
make such a radical difference. In
the earlv " nlowiner the eround was
moist and falling back, it settled down
firmly, which is the secret of success.:
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