Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — WHEAT IN THE CORN STUBBLE [ARTICLE]

WHEAT IN THE CORN STUBBLE

METHOD OF SEEDING GROWING POPULAR BECAUSE OF LA-BOR-SAVING. The growing of wheat on corn stubble is a practice that has stood the test because it helps to solve the labor problem, makes the popular threeyear rotation of corn, wheat and clover possible and insures an excellent crop of wheat at a good profit providing the land is properly handled. As a general rule do not plow, but disk corn stubble for wheat. Prepare the corn field well, keep it mellow, free from weeds and conserve the moisture by frequent cultivation. The corn should be planted early and be of a quick maturing variety, so it may be cut in time to sow the wheat on a well prepared seed bed. The shocks should be close in the row and the rows as wide apart as the corn can be carried to advantage. An evener stand of grass will be secured if the shock rows are seeded to oats or barley and grass in the spring instead of endeavoring to seed in the fall between the corn shocks as some do. In Standing Corn. For seeding in standing corn use the one-horse disk drill. The same rules of seedbed preparation and cultivation apply as when seeding On corn stubble. Proper cultivation during the suinmer should leave the land In a fine mellow condition. If the land is hard at seeding time, loosen it with a strong one-horse harrow or cultivator. During the winter, break or cut down the cornstalks, leaving them as a mulch for the wheat and young grass. Never drag or roll the land after the wheat drill. Leave the seedbed as the drill has left it with the small ridges intact. These will molder down during the winter and feed the roots of the young wheat and grass and thus prevent their heaving during freezing and thawing weather.