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Rye should be covered with about the same depth of soil as wheat, and should also be 

 pressed in with the roller. This crop is sometimes sown among the standing corn before the 

 latter ripens, and is covered by the use of a cultivator or hoe, which gives the corn a late 

 hoeing and the rye an early sowing, as well as a moist and sheltered locality at a period in the 



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season when drought or the heat of the sun might be a check to its growth. This practice 

 involves extra labor in carrying the corn to a considerable distance in harvesting it, or the 

 necessity of stacking it upon the rye, and we are inclined to the opinion that the derived 

 advantage from it is not sufficient to compensate for the extra amount of labor it requires, 



MELICK S RYE THRESHER. 



and that harvesting the corn as early as it is ready to be cut, and stacking in another field 

 and sowing the rye as soon as possible when the field is cleared, is a better one. 



No after cultivation is needed for rye, except perhaps the use of the roller after it is well 

 started, which is thought by many to be very beneficial. 



