METHODS OF SEEDING COMPARED. 



The following is a report of Ian experiment made by a 

 member of the Goodhue Farmer's Club, Minnesota, with 

 three fields seeded to spring wheat of the China Tea variety. 

 The statement exhibits, among other points, the great ad- 

 vantage arising from a proper method of drilling, in giving 

 equal growth to the wheat plants and sufficient room for 

 their development. 



"Field No. l,two bushels of seed per acre, sown with 

 broadcast sower and cultivator combined, the seed being 

 planter 1 at depths varying from one to four inches. Field 

 No. 2, five pecks per acre, sown in drills, east and west, 

 two and one-half inches deep. Field No. 3, three pecks 

 per acre, sown in drills, east and west, two and one-half 

 inches deop, eighteen inches apart; cultivated but once, when 

 about a foot high, with a five toothed walking cultivator, at 

 the expense of one dollar per acre/' 



Results. "No. 1, good wheat, head medium in length, 

 well filled and standing thick on the ground; unequal in 

 growth, some straws being five and six feet long, others 

 only two feet; some heads very green, others ripe; estimated 

 yield twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre. No. 2 had a 

 better color during growth than No. 1, and was very even 

 in straw and degree of ripeness; heads about even, of extra 

 length; bundles very heavy; estimated yield, thirty bushels 

 per acre. No. 3 was extra at all times, its unusual deep- 

 green color and broad leaves attracting much attention; no 

 one supposed it the same kind of grain as lots 1 and .2; it 

 stooled out much more than either, and was uniform in 

 ripeness and length of straw; estimated yield, thirty-five 

 to forty bushels per acre. 



The Club concluded that they had been in the habit 

 of using too much seed for spring wheat, and that wheat 

 needs cultivation." 



I will here give my own experience of improving 



