HOW TO OBTAIN LARGE CROPS OF WHEAT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 175, 15 June 1871, Page 7

HOW TO OBTAIN LARGE CROPS OF WHEAT.

Mr. Samuel Bailey, Georgia raised nearly fifty-seven bushels wheat ou an acre of ground, and this is the way he did it : — In the first, the land was thin and exhausted, had been in crop the previous year, and by the use of manure he succeeded in making seventeen bushels on the acre. He then sowed one hundred and twenty pounds of wheat on the acre, and covered it with a heavy brush, dragged over it by two mules. The clods were beat down with a maul, in the absence of a roller. Upon this he sowed broadcast two hundred and fifty pounds of dissolved bone which was harrowed in with a two-horse revolving harrow. This was on the 2nd of November. In the early parfc of February, the wheat being then about six inches high, he sowed broadcast a top dressing of two hundred and fifty pounds of anmioniated phosphate. Late in March he applied two hundred aud fifty pounds ammoniafced bone and fifty pounds of salt ground together. This was sowed early in the morning on the dew, one half of the mixture first, and the other half at the end of the week. The grain was cut with common reap hooks as it ripened in places, commencing on the 4th of June. The production of the acre was 3,415 lbs. (or about fifty seven bushels) of good wheat. Mr Bailey does not know what the six loads of stable manure cost him, not over five dollars, but the prices of the other manures are as follows :—: — ! 250 lbs. dissolved bone ... 8 75 dol. 250 lbs aminoniated phosphate 7 50 dol. [ 150 lbs. dissolved bone ... 10 00 dol. 75 lbs. common salt ... 1 30 dol. Total ... (£6 9s) ... 27 55 dol. The land was measured and the wheat thrashed, and weighed by disinterested persons.