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one or two years, the land should be plowed twice 

 for each crop in order to get the best results. The 

 first plowing should be 8 or 9 inches deep immedi- 

 ately after the removal of the previous crop. This 

 would be from February to April. The second 

 plowing should be shallow, 3 or 4 inches, and 

 should be done just before sowing, which would 

 be from May to August. 



While the foregoing method is the one that 

 should be used, more than one half the wheat is 

 planted on land that has been plowed but once 

 just before planting. The plowing is usually from 

 3 to 4 inches deep and is also badly done. The 

 furrows are crooked, are of uneven depth and 

 width, and look as if they had been made with a 

 primitive wooden plow. The field looks as though 

 an ordinary corn cultivator had been run through 

 it rather than that it had been plowed for planting. 

 Deep plowing has been followed in Chubut by a 

 colony of Welsh farmers, and the largest yields of 

 the best wheat have there been secured. 



Methods of Seeding. Most of the seeding is 

 done by broadcast seeders or by hand. The seed 

 is covered by harrowing, and often the work is 

 poorly done. Only about one eighth of the sow- 

 ing is done by drills. The amount of seed wheat 

 used per acre varies from three fourths of a bushel 

 to one and one half bushels. The time of seeding 

 varies with the latitude of the region. It begins 



