FARMING 



Where the annual rainfall is 12 to 15 inches in a year, the following- amounts 

 of seed should suffice on well prepared land : Winter or spring rye, five 

 pecks ; winter wheat, three pecks ; Durum spring wheat, four pecks ; other 

 varieties of spring wheat, three to four pecks ; speltz, five 

 pecks; white hulless barley, three pecks; common barley, four 

 pecks ; oats, four pecks, flax, one and a half pecks ; peas, five 

 pecks ; alfalfa, sown with a drill, all of the drill tubes in use, 

 five pounds ; in rows of 36 inches apart, say, two pounds, or 

 even less; broom corn millet, in rows of 36 inches distant, say, foiir to five 



Importance 

 of Light 

 Seeding. 



Irrigated Spring Club Wheat on the Billings Bench, Which Yielded 63 Bushels Per Acre- 



pounds. The oats should be sown to measure, as Montana seed is usually 

 very heavy. AMiere it is expected that the harrowing will be very severe 

 from ten to twenty per cent more seed should be sown to allow for some of 

 the plants being removed with the harrow. 



The aim should be to sow v.'inter rye and winter wheat in summer 

 fallow or amid the standing corn in August, But lack of nwisture may make 

 it advisable some seasons to defer sowing until September. All the spring 

 sown cereals should be put into the ground early and in about the following 

 order: Spring rye, spring wheat, speltz, peas, barley, oats, flax. The aim 



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