. Agriculture for beginners. on would come inwhich one kind of preparation would do about as well asanother. This would be when there was plenty of moisture,when the wheat was protected by snow in the winter, and allother conditions were favorable. In such a season poorpreparation would give almost as large a crop as good prepa-ration, but we must bear in mind that such seasons are general, a great difference will be found in favor of thebetter and earlier preparation — a difference sufficient to pay 1 Copy these figures in your notebooks and review them frequently until you arefamilia
. Agriculture for beginners. on would come inwhich one kind of preparation would do about as well asanother. This would be when there was plenty of moisture,when the wheat was protected by snow in the winter, and allother conditions were favorable. In such a season poorpreparation would give almost as large a crop as good prepa-ration, but we must bear in mind that such seasons are general, a great difference will be found in favor of thebetter and earlier preparation — a difference sufficient to pay 1 Copy these figures in your notebooks and review them frequently until you arefamiliar with them. 12 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS for the extra labor involved and leave a nice profit to thefarmer for doing better farming. Prepare the Wheat Bed early. A lesson is taught by thisexperiment that cannot be too often or too strongly impressedupon our minds, and that is, the importance of preparing theseed bed early in the season and keeping the surface tilledso as to save moisture ;ind keep down weeds. (East of the. Fig. 7. ; Day .\m> Xiciit td the Seed Bed early looth meridian, Salina, Kansas, this advice is always of the lOOth meridian a slightly different practicewill be advisable to keep the soil from drifting.) By thismethod a compact seed bed will be made, and the mulch onthe surface will have checked evaporation so that there willbe enough moisture in the soil to insure the prompt germi-nation of the seed and a steady growth of the young plantsup to the beginning of cold weather. By that time the plantswill be large enough to take care of themselves, and the WHEAT 13 winter rains will not settle the soil and leave the plants withtheir roots exposed. Late plowing leaves a loose seed bed with little moisture;the seeds either fail to germinate or grow so slowly that theyenter the winter weak and puny. In the hard winter-wheat belt of Kansas and Nebraska,and in the spring-wheat region of the Dakotas, etc., wherethe areas grown to wheat a
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