WHEN TO CUT WHEAT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 866, 22 November 1878, Page 2

WHEN TO CUT WHEAT.

'Wheat'. should never he fully line before cutting, for ithen hw.. 3 color, weight, an I | quality, and if is !i ihle to I ns Tom shell* dingin the field. But it unfortunately hap. j p -ns that-, in this aye of inquiry ami compeI tivetpals 'vo con not. adopt an improvement | without rushing into the opposite extreme jof the fault we remedy. It is so in the case of harvesting, as some one or two of o >r neighboring fanners wilt find to their j cost, this season, if they will hnt fairlv test the qiiesriort. Wheat nan never ho c”*', | without nmlne sh inkitgof the kernel nn'e-» | von can press it ftlie kerne') he f w<e > your thnmh and foretineer wi-h>nt squeezing out, j any liquid, or “ milk." as the farmers e.a'l jih If cut before this. i n the nro“o“S of ripening, is converted into a substance like dough, a sire loss of measme—s. melinae# vry serious will he the result, and no ad. vantage gained, as is mischievously held hy some theoretical writers, to whom a-.ateur farmers are too unm to 'lsten, over wheat cut when the milk is unite out. of it. \ week after that stage it will s'il] he in the heat, condition for cnMing and e 'en should a sin a’l portion hp. standing a little longer no harm " ill come of it, an 1 the extm Bushels win far mo-e than compensate frr th ■ loss of a li'tle color and wight which the prematurely cut may possess. In yearn P'ist. I have thoroughly tested tln-ee svs. Toms : rutting green —when the milk s jn-t ripe—and n-hen the “ goose-necked ” or ■leal rine. »m 1 1 always fonn 1 the trial do. c*ded|\. against the green cutting. There is risk in the nver-rino svs'em if h'gh wind* prevail, hnt chances are that once in three v.ars you may lose two bushels per aero blown nut. while by cutting too early you certainly lose every year from four to six bushels per acre hy shrinking Rut there is no need in these d.avs of efficient machi. nery for nrn’onging the wheat cutting on any farm beyond ten d.avs. winch will ad. Mit of waiting until it is propel v fit before '■egi- nine, and finishing before the cron is over-vine and in .1 aimer of shedding —J.J. T. in Hampshire Chronic'e.