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Wheat and Wheat Cutxire. 



[September, 



will in most cases be prevented. It is not the depth at which seed 

 is lodged that prevents the grain from spouting out. It arises from 

 the amount of moisture present in the soil. 



How deep would it be secure against such casualty do you sup- 

 pose, Mr. Farmer? 



It must be, certainly, below the frost, say in this country some 

 twelve or eighteen inches; for let water find its way into the fissure of 

 a rock to almost any depth and there be frozen it will oppose and 

 triumph over any amount of resistance. Certainly then if the plia- 

 ble earth be fillod with water to any depth the thawing and freezing 

 must eject whatever is placed within its range ; then nothing can 

 save a crop of wheat from being thrown out as long as the surface 

 and subsoil both remain undrained. 



You have before you clearly the condition of your plants when 

 sowed in ground prepared according to cut No. 2, and if good soil 



