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winter wheat, and more and bigger weeds will 

 cheat you out of 20 to 30 bushels, as repeated 

 experience has shown. Suitable tools for this 

 kind of work are not available, therefore, the task 

 of keeping the weeds out with such tools as we 

 have is not an easy one. It is hoped, however, 

 that some day the real merits of summer tilling 

 as it is now understood will be sufficiently appre- 

 ciated to demand proper tools, but so far there 

 have been so many failures because of the many 

 mistakes that the interest in waning, a most 

 unfortunate fact in the face of what we are giving 

 you in this book, and the many similar big yields 

 during the past fifteen years. What one can 

 successfully do another should do if he really 

 knows how. 



As proof of our assertions regarding the cost 

 of weeds, please note Cut No. 37. Here are two 

 stools of wheat from the same summer tilled field. 

 A part of the field was kept clean of weeds, a 

 part in spite of conditions and reasonable efforts 

 became somewhat weedy. The weedy part of 

 the field was plowed first and the balance im- 

 mediately following, same care was given to the 

 entire field in plowing, packing and cultivating up 

 to seed time, then to make conditions apparently 

 all the more alike, the night following the seeding 

 l\ inches of rain fell over the entire field. Forty- 

 three days after seeding the stools of wheat, shown 

 in the cut referred to, were pulled. The larger 

 ones from the field kept clean and selected as an 

 average sample of the stooling shows 20 stools 

 or stalks; the smaller ones from the part that was 



