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Protecting Grain Fields With Straw
F. H. Sweet Tells of Experience of West Virginia Farmer
With This Method
BY F. H. SWEET
ULCHING for winter, and
more especially for
spring protection, has
long been practiced by
farmers, horticulturists
and nurserymen, but not
This farmer said that some of the
most striking results were obtained
by putting a top dressing of straw
on fall-sown wheat and rye immedi
ately after the seeding was finished.
At this time of year the ground gen
erally is in good condition and will
not be cut up much by a team and
wagon.
With an even covering of straw on
the surface, the ground holds more
moisture and tends to prevent the soil
from crusting after heavy rains. This
allows the young shoots to break
through the soil and get an early
start. When a crust forms, examina
tion of the shoots show that they curl
around in a tangled bunch under the
crust, sometimes either breaking
through after considerable delay or
throwing off a new sprout, but more
often dying before this occurs.
Working the surface with a roller
or harrow is necessary to break up
the crust if it once forms. When
freezing weather comes a layer of
straw on the ground prevents drying
out of the soil and holds the snowfall,
which tends to drift wherever there is
a strong wind. Besides ice sheets,
which sometimes form from alternate
freezing and thawing of snow, can not
settle down on the crop and smother
it when an insulation of straw lies
next the ground.
One of the most critical times for
winter grain crops is in the early
spring when the snow begins to leave
and sudden freezing and thawing oc
cur. This action tends to heave the
young plants out of the soil, roots and
all. the ground can be worked over
with a roller before the plants are en
tirely out of the soil, the crop may
be saved, but a better insurance
against loss may be had from the
straw covering, which, although it
does not prevent freezing out of the
ground, prevents sudden thawing that
causes the heaving action.
Later in the spring the ground has
a tendency to dry out, and if there is
not sufficient rain the earth begins
to crack. The crop has not yet made
much progress and consequently can
be seriously damaged. Here again the
straw affords a protection by retard
ing the drying. Straw also proves
helpful in getting a stand of clover
in the grain. If clover seed is sown
on a straw-covered field, when the
crop sprouts it receives protection
from the hot sun during the summer
and from baking of the soil after the
grain crop has been removed. Ex
periments made to determine the ad
vantage of spreading straw on wheat
have shown increases in yield as high
as 10 bushels, du^to the straw top
dressing. An application of about 1,
800 pounds per acre gave the best
results. It was also found that the
straw could be spread at any time
during the winter or late spring with
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in every case. The moisture held in
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growth of the crop.
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smothered. Besides, even spreading
makes the straw go farther. In addi
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affordB, it has a fertilizing value if
put upon the field before it becomes
rotted and the plant food material
leaches away. In this way much fer
tility can be saved to enrich the soil,
which is far better than the practice
of burning the .straw or letting it rot
in a strawpile while the fertilizing
elements wash away in the drainage
water.
PAGE TWELVE
Where it is the practice to sow
clover seed in with wheat, spreading
straw insures protection for the clover
crop as well as the wheat. Moisture
held in the soil after the grain has
been removed helps the young clover
to make a rapid growth, oftentimes
promoting sufficient growth to make
excellent pasturage. It also makes a
valuable green manure crop when
turned under. In plowing in green
manure crops or straw, the farmer
referred to has found that the vege
table matter can be better distributed
throughout the soil by turning the
furrow slice one-half or three-quar
ters of the way over instead of com
pletely over. According to his ex
perience, when the furrow slice is
turned completely over, the vegetable
matter forms a mass in the bottom
of the furrow and tends to prevent
passage of moisture between the sub
soil and the top soil. After turning
the soil partly over a disk harrow
may be used to cut up the stalks and
stems of decaying plants and distrib
ute them through the soil. This pul
verizes the soil, closes up cracks and
smoothes the surface. It the soil does
not settle sufficiently a roller packer
may be run over it.
On practically every farm where
small grain is grown there is more
straw produced than can be used for
feed and bedding for animals. None
of this surplus straw should be wast
ed if it can be made to increase crop
yields and enrich the soil at the same
tinge. Objection has been made that
wind may blow the straw into piles
in the fence corners and that it af
fords a breeding place for insect pests
and worms. According to the farmer
whose experience has been related
there is no danger in this respect as
far as he has been able to determine.
In the field the straw soon forms a
mat which the wind will not lift and
if insects breed in it they are turned
under and destroyed in the fall. The
time and effort required to spread fhe
straw is the principal consideration.
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