LIGHT SEEDING OF GRAIN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2650, 4 October 1882, Page 4

LIGHT SEEDING OF GRAIN.

A correspondent writes to an American journal as follows : —“ln 1878 I sowed sixteen bushels of Fultz wheat on twenty-two to twenty-four acres ; it was in patches, and therefore no exact measurement, but a good share had no more than one-half bushel per acre. I used a press drill set to one-half bushel per acre, sowing broadcast some corners of the field—put the ground in excellent condition, ploughing about four inches deep, harrowing three times, and rolling twice. “In the fall of 1879 I harvested and threshed 650 bushels, nearly forty-one bushels from one bushel seeding. In the fall of 1879 I drilled seven and a-half bushels on a little over fourteen acres, and hod over thirtyfive bushels per acre on that piece, the whole crop averaged thirty-three and one-third; some I ploughed in corn ground, with a small cultivator, sowed broadcast, bat the drilled wheat on timothy sod, pastured down by sheep, and broke in September, well harrowed to pieces, and well rolled afterwards. I would never sow over three-fourths o! a bushel per acre of well cleaned wheat on good clean ground. “In 1880, I sowed nine bushels of white .Russian spring wheat on nine and a-half acres j the spring was very dry, we had no rain through May; the prospect was poor, so that on the last of that month, about onethird of the loaves looked wilted ; on the first of Juno, we had a good shower, and it commenced shooting, and made twenty-eight and one-half bushels per acre. “In the same year sowed some twenty-four acres of spring wheat on some light sandy soil. This was rented ground, and had been under the plough for ten years or more.and produced only fifteen to seventeen bushels. The varieties were Lost Nation and White Russian. I need one bushel of salt per acre. “In 1881,1 ploughed under thirty acre* of fall wheat sown on stubble land, but sowed ten acres sown in corn ground, one bushel per aore; this prodnosd twenty bushels per acre. “In 1881,1 put in twelve bushels of rye with a small one-horse cultivator of five shovels, on nineteen acres, on which the corn had been out up. It yielded twenty-one bushels per acre, although oar rye crop is a most total failure in this county, some o! it not making eight, and some as low as three bushels, and a great many portions not ent at all. Some eight or ten years ago, I harvested sixty bushels from one sown."