CULTURE OF WHEAT. g3 



might answer when sown early, when the same seed, on the 

 same soil might be sown so late as to require a bushel and a 



1^5/' T"f\ ,^"^-^^^ ^"^"^^^y °^ '^^^ ^^^eat like most o?her 

 seeds, should also, m some measure, be apportioned to the qual- 



XnuTl^ ' ^' '^ T^ ^^ supposed to produce more stalks in 

 a rich than m a more barren soil, by affording more of that nour- 

 ishment necessary to their germination and growth. The quan- 

 tity necessary must therefore be left to the discretion of the 

 fhpTrf' J. " ^Jll '^''^'.'K^ ^^^^ '^^"^^ t^k^ into consideration 



t is sowpr"" f .K ' '^'^'/^^ V^^^y ^^ ^^^ ^^^^' ^nd tlie time 

 It is sowed, whether early or later. 



seedls'^ofn'aln'i^ ^ ^r?"^ T^ ^.^^"^'^ ^^ expected unless the 

 wheat ,nS IZi "^""^'1^' !'^^ ^'^"^ th^ ^^^in^ «f diseased 

 that tt ^PP^ i? u '^^^' f '^^^^'- T^^ English farmers say 

 ' on sandv kn/ r V'"'^' ^^ ^^l'"'' of wheat which has grown 

 on sandy land nor from any other but from that which has 

 grown on soils most natural to it. The changing of seel 



n^ If h.' t"^'' '' ""Tfl^ '^ "^^" circumstances wil ad 

 nnt. It has been remarked that in the culture of Indian corn 

 Its seed will be more productive if brought from diSnt nla' 



a large proporUon of water, becomes celLlar as the later free 

 Hell r„t b^onlT"' protuberance., so that the mot^ rfSfe 

 « heat plant become disengaged from their hold in the soil It 

 .s very manifest that if wheat be sowed so early haTeach nlan 

 may have tmie to extend its roots into the so [, its chance for 

 retaining its hold will be better."* " 



Spring wheat should be sown as early as thp irmim^ „,„ >. 

 mademellow It grows best on new ribband! frlandswLh 



ptTedrng yTa "'Tist^:;^ ^"7' '"'''" '"" "Po"t:s''lhe 

 f-^^.l-^ ^ ^ ^'^ , ""d ^^ degenerate very quicklv • and 



necessL7'"°"''' '"'^ '' '"" ' "^"'^ northe^irclimtt'e arc 



The summer wheat which is brought from Canada m found 



caZn Tha^ wH n^' l''^' ^" the ^northern states of aSS 

 lul\l . • which has been sown here for some time. Bat 

 Wheat that is carried to a climate much more northerly thm 



* Eaton's Agricultural Calender. 



