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SOILING CROPS AND FERTILIZERS. 
N. 8. A., Flemington, N. J .—In planting 
Canada peas and oats on an old sod, not 
very heavy sod, would it be any better to 
plow land, then drill peas very deep, and 
drill oats light, rather than plowing under 
the peas? Would they come through the 
sod all right? What percentage of nitrogen 
does nitrate of soda contain? Would com¬ 
mon dairy salt used in mixture of commer¬ 
cial fertilizers take in any way the place of 
nitrate of soda, and muriate of potash? 
What will be the best kinds of soiling crops 
to plant so as to have green crops to cut all 
Summer? 1 wish to plant 15 acres for this 
purpose and think of planting five acres of 
Canada field peas and oats, two acres of 
speltz, three acres of millet and five acres 
of Kaffir corn. Am I on the right track? 
Ans. —We think the peas will work up 
through the sod, but have not seeded 
them in this way. Will farmers who 
have done so tell us? Nitrate of soda 
contains about 1G per cent of nitrogen. 
No, common salt will not replace the 
nitrate or the muriate. It contains 
neither nitrogen nor potash. It does 
not supply plant food, but has a chemi¬ 
cal action on the soil. Generally, oats 
and peas, Japanese millet and fodder 
corn will give a good succession of soil¬ 
ing crops. We would sooner have some 
good local variety of corn planted thick¬ 
ly in drills than Kaffir corn. 
THE RURAL NEW -YORKER. 
March 11, 
\ 
Buy Ensilage Corn That Produces 
65 Tons To The Acre 
DOUBLE SEEDING WHEAT. 
1 notice an inquiry on page 34 in regard 
to drilling wheat both ways. 1 can say that 
l' have obtained large yields from seeding 
both ways, much larger by 10, 15 and 20 
bushels more than drilling one way. Hut 
first we must take into consideration the 
fertility of the soil; second, the kind and 
quality of wheat sown ; third and most im¬ 
portant, is the kind of a season, whether 
open or closed Winter or frequent freezing 
in Spring. I would say in regard to A. 
M. L.’s inquiry that it is a very diflicult 
thing to try to give a correct answer, as 
almost ef'ery State has a somewhat differ¬ 
ent climate- or season. Rut if Pennsylvania 
is anything like New York State, A. M. D.’s 
wheat will be all right, although I never 
sow only 2% bushels to acre. In regard to 
his Timothy seeding being poor I never 
had a better stand of Timothy in quantity 
and quality than I had in seeding both 
ways. w. N. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
On page 34, also 122, the question of 
drilling wheat both ways seems to have 
some advocates. Why double the seeding at 
every cross section? Eastern farmers who 
came West insisted on and practiced heavy 
seeding on both prairie and irrigated land 
for a long time, to thek- detriment, and 
some who had .seen it practiced for two or 
three generations died real hard. We are 
doing a little better farming and using 
light seeding, and raising more grain. The 
bulk of Winter wheat sown per acre is 30 
pounds, in a few cases a little more and 
some less; oats 25 to 40 pounds per acre. 
This last weighs 4<» to 48 pounds per 
bushel. As our rainfall is only 1!) inches. 
Winter wheat is our best crop, and by ex¬ 
cessive cultivation wheat sown in August 
will make a good crop in very dry seasons. 
This last season was very dry. Spring 
grain, while not an entire failure was no 
success; still Winter wheat yielded 25 to 
35 bushels, one case near here over 40 
bushels on a 40-aere tract. This may have 
had a little advantage in local showers; 
still cultivation and conservation of mois¬ 
ture was the real cause. A year ago was 
more than an average season, and the aver¬ 
age on well-farmed prairie, was over 40 
bushels per acre over thousands of acres in 
the .1 udith Basin. At a branch experiment 
station three plots under different cultiva¬ 
tion showed yields respectively of 50, 56 
and 60Mi bushels per acre, and there were 
a number of cases where oats were better 
than 80 bushels per acre. This generally 
was on land that a few years ago was con¬ 
sidered worthless, only for grazing. This 
of course is done by excessive cultivation 
and the plots above mentioned were side by 
side, but difference was amount of culti¬ 
vation after breaking sod before seeding 
and harrowing the grain in Spring. Grain 
is very often harrowed after it is a foot 
high ; 'commence to harrow when it starts 
in Spring and harrow after every rain. This 
cuts out the small weeds, stops grass from 
leaching the moisture and forms a dust 
mulch to retain moisture. This is done 
with light wood harrows from 18 to 32 
feet wide, four or six horses abreast; har¬ 
row 35 to 70 acres a day. This surely 
looked wicked to me at first; but I would 
like to see some of our progressive brothers 
cast try even on small plots light, medium 
and heavy seeding side by side, and harrow 
half of field once, say a quarter twice, and 
a little until it was a foot high or more, to 
see how much damage it would really do, 
for 1 feel that this is the way they would 
put it (I did). Those results are made 
without fertilizer or manure. We have the 
soil, but what is needed is to retain all 
moisture possible. !'• H - 
Montana. 
The universal custom hereabouts is to 
drill the wheat but one way, but I think 
0. 1). B., on page 122, is quite wrong in 
his position that “In cross drilling a double 
amount of seed is sown at the intersection 
of the drill rows.” Is it not plain enough 
that there is just the same amount of seed 
sown, and the same room for growth of 
the plants at the intersections, when one 
bushel is drilled each way as there is in 
the continuous row when two bushels are 
drilled the one way? 1 am unable to see 
it otherwise. J- R - s - 
Glenshaw, Fa. 
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bumper crops—it’s better this year than it has ever been—22 feet high 
stalks won’t surprise us this season. 
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winter when grain prices jump up. 
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ENSILAGE 
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PROOF 
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Every man 'round here who sowed 
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acres, believe it will go 18 ft. this tall 
sure. M. J. Peck. 
Cortland , N. Y. 
Your Eureka Ensilage Corn is almost 
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Please send enough Eureka Ensilage 
Corn to plant 25 acres. Had splendid 
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Kingston. N. Y. H. R. Brigham. 
Last spring I sent for 3 bushels 
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We had stalks 16 ft. high, used no com¬ 
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1911. F. B. Martin. 
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/ purchased some Eureka seed corn last 
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Port Howard, N. Y. A r . G. Ellis. 
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WORLD’S 
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Read his letter. 
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FOR BEST TEN EARS 
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TO® 
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