. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. 134 FIELD CROP PRODUCTION moisture. Experiment station tests of tliis practice seem to indicate that harrowing wheat is profitable if the season is a dry one, this practice sometimes increasing the yield as much as 6 or 7 bushels per acre. In these experiments, harrowing was not found to decrease the yield during any season. Rolling the wheat in the spring has also given good results, in some cases better than harrowing. HARVESTING AND STORING 123. Harvesting. — In some part of th
. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. 134 FIELD CROP PRODUCTION moisture. Experiment station tests of tliis practice seem to indicate that harrowing wheat is profitable if the season is a dry one, this practice sometimes increasing the yield as much as 6 or 7 bushels per acre. In these experiments, harrowing was not found to decrease the yield during any season. Rolling the wheat in the spring has also given good results, in some cases better than harrowing. HARVESTING AND STORING 123. Harvesting. — In some part of the world, wheat is being harvested during each month in the year. In the. Fig. —^Harvesting wheat with a grain binder. southern part of the United States wheat harvest begins in May, and as the season advances progresses northward, the more northerly fields being cut in August. Almost all of the wheat crop in this country is harvested as soon as it is ripe. However, in certain sections of the wheat growing districts along the Pacific Coast it is allowed to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Livingston, George. New York, The Macmillan company
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