Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th
day of August 191S.
J. B. CKIPPBN.-Notary Public,
My Coannisrioa expiree Fek 21, lt!8...
OUT CHOP HOW
TO IMPROVE IT
Four Factors That Go to Product
an Even Crop—Some Facts
Which Apply to All Sections.
PFORMTILLAGE-BETTERSEED
Proper Preparation of Soil, Cleat*
Well Selected Seed Well Drilled
in Will Insure Maximum
Yields—Harvesting, Shock
tag and Stacking.
By Prof. L. G. Burnett, Iowa State
College of Agriculture.
[National Crop Improvement Service.]
In order to give a maximum crop
at
any grain, a field must present an
even stand of uniform plants. Fields
that look ragged sometimes yield
more than the one across the fence
that has been properly tended but
this is no argument that the piece in
question could not have been im
proved by the adequate treatment.
1
There are four factors that go
to produce an even crop:
1. Uniform land.
2. Uniform tillage.
3. Uniform seed.
4. Uniform distribution of seed.
Increasing the Yield.
Experience has taught that the fol
lowing practices are necessary to in
crease the yield of oats:
a. Preparation of seed bed to
a uniform depth and surface.
b. Grading seed.
c. Treating seed for smut.
d. Sowing with a drill.
e. Sowing plenty of seed.
f. Cutting as soon as rip&
g. Shocking.
h. Stacking.
Uniform Land and Tillage.
The tillage of land for oats is one
of the most neglected practices in a
great many states. This is true in
Iowa. Two or three times over a
ptalkfield with a dull disk and harrow
is considered by too many farmers
to be all that is necessary for oats.
