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ment in the harvesting! It is well to direct attention to this important 

 part of rural economy and to advise farmers to be more cautious in se- 

 curing ibeir crops. 



Sj)ring Larruwing is sometimes of great service to wheat, but this 

 operalion should be carefully performed and a very light barrow should 

 be used, as the breaking up of the crust of the soil and the pulveriza- 

 tion of lumps are all that is required. Harrowing prepares an excel- 

 lent seed bed for clover and classes. Rollinor covers the seed and also 

 makes a fine, smooth surface for the reaper. 



We are told that "the man who makes two blades of grass grow 

 where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his race." If so, how 

 much more useful is he who raises two busheh of wheat in a space that 

 heretofore produced but one ? That ibis can be done by proper atten- 

 tion io seed manure and rotation 0/ croj^s, dc, I have no doubt; 

 neither will you, reader, if you make the experiment. 



BUPPiEMKNT. 



More than six months have elapsed since the foregoing part of this 

 essay was written. The price of wheat is now much low^er than it 

 was in the fall. Some farmers have lost considerably by disposing of 

 their grain too early in the s ason, ctheis by keeping it over too lone;. 

 Some have been fortunate by steering a middle course and disposing of 

 their wheat when prices were high. I would not advise farmers to 

 speculate too much on an expected improvement in the market. I 

 would have them thresh in proper time, so that the straw may be con- 

 sumed as fodder or litter, and turned into manure during the winter 

 and spring. I never like to see a load of straw in the market, nor a 

 stack of it remaiuing in the farm yard during summer, except such 

 fihould be required as litter for house fed animals. 



I respectfully call the attention of farmers to the remarks I have 

 made on the managf^ment of sprouted wheat. 



Although I have mentioned the wonderful produce which has in 

 some cases been obtained from an acre of wheat, I do not wish any 

 person to think that such an immense return can be expected even/rom 

 iJke best wheat soil in ordinary seasons. 



If we wish to raise great crops we must make extraordinary prepa- 

 rations for doing so. The land must be extremely fertile, the seed 

 must be uncommonly good, the plowing, harrowing, rolling in apiing, 



