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VOL. XXVI.
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CONYERS GEORGIA-
PLANTING
WHEAT.
W. P, Walker’s Method.
The Telegraph advocates wheat
sowing, a general diversification of
crops and less cotton, To stimu
late the good work, it offered in
1898-99 for the best yield of wheat
on four acres, $100 in gold, For
second best, $50 in gold, Third
best $25 in gold, and for bast
yield on one acre, $25 in gold, A
convention of wheat growers met
on July 22, 1900, in Macon, and a
committee composed of Messrs J.
M. Gray, E. Taylor, and C. H.
Jordan, who -vere appointed by
the convention, made awards of
prizes as follows;
First Prize, $100—W. P. Yv al
ker, of Spalding, 4 acres, 147 bush¬
els, and 50 lbs.
Second Prize, $50—Mrs. M. E.
Wilson, of Spalding county (sister
to Mr. Walker). 4 acres, 125 bush
els, and. 48 lbs.
Third Prize, $25—Jesse M. Tan¬
ner, of Washington county, 132j
bushels on 4 acres.
Fourth Prize, Best yield on one
acre $25—W. P. Walker of Spald
mg, 40 bushels and one pound.
It will fie seen that Mr. Walker
and his sister captured $175 of the
$200 offered. Mr. Walker’s meth¬
od of planting wheat consequent¬
ly became of much interest, and
he received a great number of in¬
quiries, which he kindly answered
through The Telegraph. These
have been printed in The Tele¬
graph several times, and the paper
put them in pamphlet form for
preservation ai.d reference. Mr.
Walker prints the most common
questions aske 1 him, and then
gives his answers as. follows :
Question—When is the l est time
to sow wheat?
Answer--Just after the first
freeze or killing frost- in Novem
ber.
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By waiting till then many in¬
sects that are so destructive to
wheat are destroyed. To sow in
October, wheat would be more li¬
able to get killed in oarly spring.
As to the kind of land, I suggest
that, you sow your best upland.
Nearly all wheat growers are par¬
tial to red land, but I must say
that two of the poorest yields I
ever had was on red land, Tell
me what your season will be next
April and May and I can tell you
the kind of soil that will give the
best result.
My wheat land is not especially
prepared before sowing. I sow
wheat after cotton that has been
well cultivated. If the stalks are
large I usually drag something
Over them, after which I plow
them upwi'li a scooter plow and
let them remain where they are.
Q—What is the best manure,
and how do you use it?
A—I use all manures broadcast.
Nothing better than stable manure
Cow manure when obtained from
cotton seed hulls and meal equals
any thing you can use. • Cotton
seed are fine for rainy season and
will not leach like other manures.
As to commercial fertilizers, I
know nothing of them. But you
can always rely on acid phosphate
and cotton seed meal, mixed two
of acid and one of meal, though
dryer the seoson the better the re¬
sult, Too much meal will kill the
seed wheat at the time of germi¬
nation .
Q—What kind of wheat do you
sow?
A—It is purple straw.
Q—How do you treat your seed
wheat?
all .... the small ,, •
A—I _ shake , , grains
possible of ,,. the wheat , . , by pass- «
out
nig the same through a fan over a
8-16 inch sieve at about 30 degrees
incline. • If you cannot secure
your seed in that way go to some
place in your field where you have |
only ordinary wheat and there cut 1
off enough for your seed, It is !
perfectly natural for wheat to have j
two grains to the mesh and when :
you grow more than two you will
CONYERS, GA., NOV. 7, 1900
find a great many small grains.
Q—Why select the best grains
for seed?
A—Because it is the mother
the little plant. The larger
grain the,more vitality it has, the
more uniform in its growth, and all
the plants ara more liable to
stand injuries. To get the
and ripening more uniform
creases the yield improves
seed.
Q—How do you keep down
smut?
A—I have never seen any smut
in my wheat. Neither will you if
you will annually put one-quarter
of a pound of well pulverized blue
stone into a gallon of boiling wa¬
ter. When disolved pour it over
one bushel of wheat while hot and
stir until every grain is wet. Af¬
ter you have done this you should
apply slack lime just as much as
vvi 1 adhere to each grain. You
will find this to be very profitable.
The wheat will grow a little taller
and will stand a much harder win¬
ter than without this application.
I sow my wheat broadcast in the
manure so as to give the little plant
all the strength possible during
the winter months,.
Q--IIow much wlnat must we
sow per acre in order to get the
best result?
A—If you select your seed
wheat as you do your corn, I say
sow nothing less than one bushel
per acre. An acre of land that
will require two bushels to be well
seeded can be sown with one
bushel and the yield will be nearly
as good but not near so satisfactory
Why? Because when it is thinly
sown the plant will spread, it
shoots up irregular, is not uniform
in growth, does not ripen evenly,
it has a coarse starw and the only
good thing that can be said about
it is that it has a good head,
Q—How do you plow in your
wheat and how deep?
A—I turn under wish a com¬
mon turn plow, and I suppose the
seed could be found on an average
of three to four inches under the
top of the soil. 1 level the ground
with a harrow, brush or anything
that will put the ground in good
shape for the harvesting machine.
We have now six months to rest
from seed time until harvest.
Q—At what time do you cut
your wheat?
A —When you see the heads be¬
gin to turn down you can get
your machine ready for harvest.
Q—Why 1 y not cut on the fa green
order so as to have better straw/
A—By so doing you open ....... up . a
channel for mold and nut in
1 , next crop. Give the little
wheat germ all that nature calls
for and it will be more a le to
ward off the much dreaded diseas*
es. Now if we can trust our wheat
in the hands of nature let’s do our
field likewise. Nature says to man
‘Mitch your land. ” Mau says to
nature “I will terrace.” And we
evidently see that man is wrong.
But I will add for safety—good
sued, good soil and proper drain¬
age is a successful road for wheat
growers to travel. I have seen
wheat under water on terraced
land nearly a week at a time.
Wheat is not rice. Neither is an
excess of water hemmed up on a
hillside in keeping with the laws
of nature.
I have been asked if the height
of wheat had anything to do with
the yield. That depends on the
seasons and amount of manure you
used. Where I raised fifty bushels
of wheat to the acre last year it
grew to be five feet tall, I had
another piece as tall that grew on¬
ly thirty-five bushels per acre.
The former was broadcast with
barnyard manure, about fifteen
loads per acre. Also acid
phate, two to one of cotton
meal, about 300 pounds per acre.
The latter piece had never been
manured with barnyard manure,
but was broad cast with cotton
seed, about fifteen to twenty bush¬
els per acre, and acid physphate
two to one of cotton seed meal. 300
pounds per acre. This piece of
land an ordinary year will yield
about 1.000 pounds of seed cotton
per acre.
You ca 1 safely use 400 pounds
of phosphate and cotton seed meal
as above mentioned.
Q—Will it pay to raise wheat?
A —Tes. I raised last year 350
bushels of v > heat, at $1 per bushel,
$850; twelve tons of straw at 80
cents per hundred, $72 ; fourteen
tons of hay, $140. Total, $562.
Leaving the land benefitted 20 per
cent. The expense ot these seven
acres :Seed wheat, $14, preparing
land $7; fertilizer- cotton seed
meal and ocid, $17.50; narnyard
manure, $52.50, harvest Big $10,
threshing $25. Totil expense,
$1.86, leaving $426 profit and e
leven months months to play and
one to work. If I had only raised
one-seventh of what I did I would
have had more profit than if I had
raised one bale of cotton yer acre
at 5 cents per pound.—Macon Tel¬
egraph .
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