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deep. Experience proves that such grain seldom comes 

 up. This suggests the fallacy of plonghing-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 SPKING 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. 



Tone! n ng the subject of the culture of spring wheat, 

 the editor of the &quot; Prairie Farmer &quot; writes that &quot; 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 : 



