WHEAT — CORN. 389 



I find mixed crops tlie most profitable for, if I fail with 

 one, I gain with another, and the same is true with the market 

 value. 



WHEAT. 



Spring wheat is very rarely profitable or a good crop, as it 

 affords a harbor and hatching place for the chintz bug. Fall 

 wheat is a success under certain conditions. In July, as soon 

 as the growing crop is cut, be it oats or wheat, the plow must 

 follow the reaper immediately. The land should then rest 

 until the first to the tenth of September, and then be sown 

 with drill. The seed must be clean and free from weed seeds. 

 The varieties sown are Fultz, Red May, White Winter or Rocky 

 Mountain. If the weather in March be dry, the ground should 

 be rolled. Tlie yield, when sown as above described, is thirty 

 to thirty -five bushels to the acre on an average ; while late 

 plowing, late sowing, and foul seed, yield from one and one- 

 half to three bushels to the acre. 



My oats arc put in early on ground plowed in the Spring. 

 I sow two bushels to the acre, and harrow. The ground will 

 average from sixty to one h.indred bushels to the acre. 



CORN. 



The land is plowed in the Fall and planted the middle of 

 April, following with harrow cultivation, commencing before it 

 is up. That plowed in Spring is planted at once after plowing, 

 and planted from the first to the tenth of INIay. The yield is 

 from sixty to one hundred bushels to the acre. The largest 

 yield of corn is on the bottom, and of wheat, oats and barley 

 on the prairie. 



MILLET. 



German millet should be sown at the same time as Spring 

 plowed land for corn. It fields three to four tons to the acre, 

 and forty to fifty bushels of seed, and makes excellent feed for 

 stock, fed with prairie hay. Thus I save my corn for my hogs. 



STOCK. 



I sow barley and plant artichokes as Summer feed for 

 hogs in the pasture, giving them access to running water. 



