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arm-yard manure which was immediately ploughed in very deep. 

 Up to the 15th August, it was used at night as a sheep yard, 

 when the field was again ploughed three times, until the soil was 

 perfectly pulverized. Two hushels to the acre of ' Soule's wheat' 

 was then sown hroodcast, and covered with a light plough which 

 completed the process. The variety known in Western New 

 York as " Soule's Wheat" is in fact no other than the very best 

 Genessee " White Flint," having a stiff straw and maturing 

 early. 



The following is Professor Emerson's analysis of this soil : — 



Water of Absorption 3.00 



Organic Matter 7.75 



Silicates 7G. 93 



Carbonate of Lime 2.82 



Phosphate of Alumina 0.15 



Magnesia 0.25 



Peroxide of iron and Alumina 8.82 



99.72 

 104. 2nd. Late Solving. "We regard it as one of the most 

 efficient, as it certainly is the most facile of any that can be re- 

 sorted to."(') " It is universally admitted that it is the earliest 

 sowed fields which are always the most infested." (2) Objections, 

 — winter killing, rust and wheat midge. Remedies to these, — 

 draining, protecting with litter or cow dung, and for rust see 

 paragraphs 190 to 227. Time of sowing, about the last week in 

 September, seed being properly prepared for reasons given else- 

 where and in appendix. Depth of sowing, 2 — 2\ inches. 

 Depth of ploughing, 6 to 8 inches or more. In parts of Ohio 

 late sowing is found to be a very excellent artifice, the varieties 

 sown being the " Soule and white-blue stem ;" these have nearly 



(1) Fitch. (2) Ibid. 



