Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 46 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE is one of the best grain crops to use as a nurse crop for clover, timothy and other grasses. Kinds of Wheat.—There are a great many different kinds of wheat; but, so far as most farmers are concerned, there are but two general types; namely, spring wheat and winter wheat. Spring wheat is seeded in the spring and harvested in late summer. Winter wheat is seeded in the fall, lives over winter, and is harvested in m
Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 46 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE is one of the best grain crops to use as a nurse crop for clover, timothy and other grasses. Kinds of Wheat.—There are a great many different kinds of wheat; but, so far as most farmers are concerned, there are but two general types; namely, spring wheat and winter wheat. Spring wheat is seeded in the spring and harvested in late summer. Winter wheat is seeded in the fall, lives over winter, and is harvested in midsummer. Minnesota and the Dakotas are the principal spring wheat- producing states. Most of the other important wheat states produce winter wheat. Soil for Wheat.—Wheat will do well on any ordinarily productive soil in the United States. It does best fol- ' *wr X l-> i >/. '^' '^ 2! '^•i«Kr -^^^ i~ Figure 17.—A fine field of wheat. lowing some cultivated crop like corn or potatoes, or on land that has been summer fallowed. Land is usually plowed to a medium depth of from four to six inches. Fall plowing is preferred for spring wheat. The soil is then harrowed or disked, or both, until the top two or three inches are mellow and fine. Sowing.—Wheat is sown at the rate of one bushel to one and a half bushels per acre. It may be sown in drills, usually six inches apart, or broadcast. Drilling is preferred, as it places the seed in the soil at an even depth, and it is all covered. Harvesting.—Harvesting wheat used to be a very hard task; now it is done by machinery and very rapidly. In the central and eastern part of the United States it is har-
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