UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 1094 



ashington, D. C. 



August 18, 1922 



METHODS OF 



iVINTER- WHEAT PRODUCTION AT THE 



FORT HAYS BRANCH STATION 



By 



JOHN S. COLE, Agriculturist, and A. L. HALLSTED, Assistant 



in Dry-Land Agriculture, Office of Dry-Land Agriculture 



Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry 



CONTENTS 



Vinter Wheat in EUia and Adjoining 



Counties in Kansas 1 



Cooperative Experiments in Metliods of 

 Wheat Production at the Fort Hays 



Branch Station 7 



Continuous and Alternate Cropping to 



Wheat for 14 Years 8 



Wheat in Rotations for 14 Years ... 13 



Methods of Fallow 17 



Wheat in Intertilled Strips 20 



Cooperative Experiments in Methods. 

 etc.— Continued. 



Growing Winter Wheat without Plow- 

 ing 20 



Corn and Eafir as Preparations for 

 Wheat 23 



Wheat in Miscellaneous Rotations . . 24 



Wheat in 3-Year Rotations of Eafir, 



Fallow, and Wheat 26 



Summary 29 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1922 



