Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Use Too Much Seed. [ARTICLE]

Use Too Much Seed.

Glenn Gun, an Oshtemo, Mich., farmer, had always argued that farmers used too much seed wheat per acre, and concluded to try a little experiment this season. He carefully weighed out an ounce of wheat and the same amount of rye, sowing the grain with a drill, one kernel in a place, and six inches apart. His neighbors ridiculed the idea of planting grain in such a manner, but Gun has just thrashed his miniature crop and found his wheat yield to be eighty-six ounces, while the rye turned out six ounces more. The skeptical neighbors were convinced and the present methods of wheat culture are likely to undergo a change in that immediate region.