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this time the wheat was from 9 to 11 inches tall, it had been but 

 slightly affected by the cold of the winter and had a dark green 

 color but had not stooled to amount to anything. 



The field was again examined May 28, 1906. At this time the 

 straw was from 20 to 33 inches high. This difference in height made 

 the field look patchy, except the strawberry field, where the wheat 

 was 40 inches tall. Stools of two tillers were hard to find. The 

 heads were all formed and ready to head out. The wheat stood well 

 and thick enough on the ground. The field was examined for the 

 last time July 3, 1907. At this time the wheat was beginning to 

 ripen and was from 40 to 55 inches high in the three sections of the 

 field where the barley, oats and potatoes were raised, while in the 

 strawberry field it w^as from 50 to 60 inches tall. The heads were 

 well formed and square and well filled. The fly did very little 

 damage, though it was found here and there. This wheat was har- 

 vested from July 18 to 24, and was threshed the beginning of Sept- 

 ember and yielding 40 bushels to the acre field yield. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



In regard to early seeding, we notice first, that the wheat of Mr. 

 Dietz sown October 3, was, when examined November 7, only four to 

 seven inches high while that of William Menges was from 16 to 19 

 inches high. When these fields were again examined in the spring 

 Mr. Deitz's wheat which was only four to seven inches high had at- 

 tained a height of from 9 to 13 inclies, while that of Mr. Menges was 

 winter-killed down to from 11 to 13 inches. During the entire season 

 Mr. Dietz's wheat was more vigorous and made a yield of approxi- 

 mately five bushels more to the acre. Another thing we noticed 

 especially that Mr. Spangler, with practically the same soil treat- 

 ment so far as plowing and the application of stable manure and 

 fertilizer are concerned, but with only two cultivations just before 

 sowing the wheat and none between the plowing and the time of 

 sowing has a yield of 25 bushels to the acre, and Peter Menges with 

 the same kind of soil and but with a cultivation every week at least 

 between the plowing and seeding time has a yield of 31 bushels to 

 the acre. 



Another thing we notice in the case of Mr. Moul. He applied 

 larger quantities of a higher grade of fertilizer, together with lime 

 on a soil that when it receives the right kind of treatment produces 

 the highest grade of wheat in our section. Mr. Moul gives his field 

 two harrowings, applies a stable manure and with the same well 

 cleaned seed from which Menges' get 31 bushels to the acre he 

 gets seventeen. 



A fourth thing we noticed in the field of Mr. H. M. Anderson, that 

 part of the field which was plowed early and cultivated at least once 

 and some times twice a week between plowing and seeding time, and 

 also the wagon path through the corn field, yielded 39^ bushels to 

 the acre, while that part of the field which was plowed the day 

 before seeding, and which had plowed down into it a crop of crimson 

 clover, and received the same amounts of commercial fertilizer and 

 the same quantities of stable manure yielded only 24 bushels to the 

 acre or 15^ bushels less than the other part of the same field plowed 

 early and cultivated often. I might say here in further explanation, 

 that the fall of 1906 was very favorable for growing wheat with us, 



