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treatment in early spring did not have a very 

 encouraging appearance. But early June was 

 reached with continued hot, dry weather and the 

 grand prospect of this summer tilled field was 

 soon blighted. It required too much moisture to 

 keep up the growth of so much foliage. It was 

 really the first field to show firing and never pro- 

 duced one bushel, and was heralded far and wide 

 as evidence that summer tilling was a failure. 

 Had 20 pounds of seed been sown per acre there 

 would doubtless have been a good crop matured, 

 as evidenced by the summer tilled field at Strat- 

 ton, Nebraska, 45 miles west of Indianola. The 

 Desens field shown in Cut No. 33, was grown the 

 same year and a 33 bushel crop matured, due very 

 largely to the lighter seeding following the good 

 tillage. But had the Desens field been seeded with 

 even 45 pounds under the conditions that existed 

 it would have resulted in little or no crop. 



We have endeavored to show that the more 

 perfect the seed and root bed the less seed should 

 be sown. Then again, in case of fall seeding, the 

 later^you put in the seed the more seed is required. 

 The stand in the spring must not be too thick; 

 then again, if too thin it cannot bring a good 

 yield. This question can only be settled by close 

 observation and experience. It is however a vital 

 one. 



FALL SEEDING SUMMER TILLED LAND 



We will assume that summer tilling has been 

 well done by the plowing being done early in June 

 and weeds kept practically clean from the field 



