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Wheat and Wheat Culture. 



[September, 



reasons wliicli your owa good sense will suggest by studying tbese 

 diaorams and comparing with facts coming under your own observa- 

 tion. The evils arising from the deep sowing of our wheat are more 

 serious than from any other. AVe exhibited before the Cincinnati 

 Horticultural Society, about a year since, the diflference in the 

 weight of product of a seed placed to the depth of two inches and 

 one at the surface, after six weeks planting, and there was the aston- 

 ishing result of 8 to 1 in favor of the latter, and at the time of har- 

 vest of thirty, to two thousand in an extreme case. This is at first 

 startling but it is nevertheless /ac^ 



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