. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. els. By holding for a good price when it is cheap, he has made his wheat bring him on an average not less than $2 25 per hundred pounds. For instance, in 18C3, wheat fell to 1/i, and by holding one year it rose to 3}^. At another time he held on to his wheat three years to get his price, and got it. SYSTEM op CULTINATION. The soil on this farm is rather lighter than the average of valley lands—such soil as dries out quickly in unfavorable seasons. Mr. E. says hi
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. els. By holding for a good price when it is cheap, he has made his wheat bring him on an average not less than $2 25 per hundred pounds. For instance, in 18C3, wheat fell to 1/i, and by holding one year it rose to 3}^. At another time he held on to his wheat three years to get his price, and got it. SYSTEM op CULTINATION. The soil on this farm is rather lighter than the average of valley lands—such soil as dries out quickly in unfavorable seasons. Mr. E. says his experience is that the best grain is produced when the soil is plowed not over three inches deep. To cultivate deeper is a waste of team power, and productive of no good results. After plowing for grain, whether it is done early or late, the soil is thoroughly harrowed. A Buckeye drill is used to sow the grain. Forty pounds of White wheat is drilled in to the acre. The drills are run as deep as the plow runs—about three inches. An average of ten acres a day can be put in with the drill. Much better results are gained from using the driU than from broad-cast sowing, to say nothing about the saving of seed. Where grain is grown this year, hay is grown next, and the third year the iield is pastured. His stubble fields are are also pastured every season. Mr. Emer- son's farm is divided into convenient fields for this system of rotation. He believes that pasturing a field is better than summer-fal- lowing it. His system of taking ofi' a crop of hay and then pasturing leaves the land clean of all foul weeds, so that his grain is always clean. His hay is also clean, and of first quality, and his pastures are always rich in nutritious feed. This systen of cultivation enriches his farm. It wiU produce better crops now than it would twenty years ago. He says that one year with another his farm produces forty bushels of wheat to the acre, and it is not uncommon that sixt
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