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and location north-east Colorado, we would seed 

 promptly September first, with 18 pounds of good 

 plump seed. 



If however, the plowing has been later and the 

 seed bed has not been favored with fairly good 

 rains more seed must be sown, possibly 25 pounds 

 per acre. Good judgment as to its possible stand 

 must be exercised and can only come from close 

 attention to details. 



THE REMEDY FOR TOO THICK STAND 



In case of too much seed followed by liberal 

 stooling, the field should be single disked in the 

 spring with disk set at a sufficient angle to destroy 

 enough to bring the stand down to proper amount. 

 You cannot do one part of the work of summer 

 tilling correctly, and some other part wrong and 

 get results. Every part of a telephone, phono- 

 graph or automobile must be rightly adjusted and 

 in its place or it is a failure. So, too, in growing 

 good crops in the semi-humid sections, quantity 

 of seed and time of seeding must be as carefully 

 considered as tillage. 



FALL SEEDING ON FALL TILLED LAND 



Where wheat follows wheat on fall tilled land, 

 more seed is needed, but if a good, fine, firm seed 

 bed has been obtained and a fair amount of 

 moisture in the soil, 30 pounds is ample in case of 

 early seeding. If however, you have very little 

 moisture, early seeding on fall fitted land is not 

 desirable, for too much growth and no fall rains 



