DIEECTIONS FOE GROWING SMALL GRAINS, 



Spring Wheat. 



Soil. — Wheat will succeed on a wide range of soil avoiding 

 excessively dry or excessively wet. Typical grass land is especially 

 good. 



Fertilizers. — Wheat should follow corn or potatoes in the ro- 

 tation, and so should have some residue from heavy applications 

 of fertilizer and manure on those crops. At present prices of 

 fertilizer and wheat, it will probably pay to apply from 300 to 

 400 pounds of a 4-10 mixture. 



Seed. — One and one-half bushels per acre. 



Varieties. — Marquise. 



Time of Seeding. — April 15 to May 1 (as soon as ground can 

 l)e worked) ; drilled 1 inch deep. 



Time of Harvesting. — July or early August (when straw is 

 turning yellow and grain is in dough — soft enough to be 

 easily indented with the thumb nail and hard enough not to be 

 easily crushed between the fingers). 



Average Yield. — United States (1917), 14.2 bushels; yields 

 in Massachusetts should average 28 to 30 bushels on good soils. 



Oats. 



Soil. — Almost any tillable soil will raise oats successfully. 

 Land should not be too rich in nitrogen on account of liability 

 of oats to lodge. 



Fertilizers. — The oat crop will not pay for heavy fertiliza- 

 tion; 200 to 300 pounds of a 2-8 mixture may be applied at 

 time of seeding, or, if grass seed is sown at same time, this 

 amount may be increased. 



Seed. — Two bushels to ten pecks per acre. 



Time of Seeding. — April 1 to ]\Iay 1 (as soon as ground can 

 be worked) ; oats grow best in moist, cool weather, so seeding 

 should not be delayed; drill about 1 inch deep. 



l^ime of Harvesting. — Late July or early August (in hard 

 dough stage of grain, after straw has turned). 



