Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1874 — How to Produce Spring Wheat. [ARTICLE]

How to Produce Spring Wheat.

Any spring wheat can be changed into winter, or winter into spring, merely by gradually changing the time in which either is sown. By gradually sowing spring wheat earlier every season, in a few years 4 can be sown m the fall and become winter wheat. Or just before the close of winter sow winter wheat and let it germinate slightly, then let it freeze up until spring, and next year it can be sown successfully in the spring. As it is universally conceded that winter is better than spring wheat, it is a natural conclusion that the sooner wheat can be safely sown In the spring the nearer Will it attain to the quality of winter wheat. The distinction between winter and spring wheat is a difference in the time of sowing, and not in variety. By the foregoing practice a farmer may readily change a choice variety of white winter wheat to white spring wheat. As winter wheat is so liable to be damaged by cold weather, it would be the part of wisdom to raise more spring grain and sow less winter grain—A. Y. Herald.