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deep. Experience proves that such grain seldom comes 

 up. This suggests the fallacy of ploughing-in seed wheat, 

 as much of the seed will be buried so deep that the 

 stems can never reach the surface of the ground. 



Winter grain of all kinds, will endure the influences 

 of the freezing and thawing of the soil with far less in- 

 jury to the growing plants if the seed be put in shallow, 

 rather than deep. I have endeavored to make this sub- 

 ject intelligible, under the head of Injury to Wheat 

 Plants by Freezing and Thawing, on page 126. 



Culture of Spring Wheat. 



There are many erroneous impressions touching the 

 culture of spring wheat, which I desire to correct. But, 

 I don't know as I can do it. And, I believe I shall not 

 make much of an effort to induce men to think, that 

 spring wheat will grow luxuriantly, and yield satisfac- 

 torily, where a crop of winter wheat can be produced. 

 But I know this to be a fact, notwithstanding it has been 

 controverted, by some intelligent farmers. More than 

 this, I know that under certain circumstances, a bounti- 

 ful crop of spring wheat can be produced, where the 

 land, in its present condition, would not yield a crop of 

 winter wheat worth harvesting. I record it as a rule 

 then, that wherever the land will produce a crop of win- 

 ter wheat, spring wheat may be grown most satisfacto- 

 rily. 



Touching the subject of the culture of spring wheat, 

 the editor of the " Prairie Farmer " writes that " spring 

 wheat in the Northwest is comparatively a modern 

 crop. Spring-wheat flour has one never-failing char- 

 acteristic to distinguish it from that of winter wheat : 



