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careful seedbed preparation. It is true that 

 western farmers have been depending too much 

 upon a single crop, and continuous wheat cropping 

 is rapidly exhausting the soil fertility. The writer 

 would not discourage the growing of wheat on 

 this account but rather encourage the practice 

 of better farming methods, described in these 

 pages, by which more wheat of better quality 

 shall be produced on fewer acres without depleting 

 the fertility of the soil. 



Farmers throughout the hard winter wheat 

 belt are urged to plant hard red winter wheat of 

 the Turkey type and to secure seed of an improved 

 variety. It will pay to plant well bred seed of the 

 best producing varieties, as has been proved by the 

 tests at the experiment stations and the actual 

 experience of farmers. 



CLEANING AND GRADING 



It is advisable to clean seed grain of all trash 

 and very light kernels. Heavy, plump seed ger- 

 minates quickly, grows more vigorously, and gives 

 greater assurance of a regular stand and a large 

 yield. However, carefully graded, shriveled grain 

 of a hardy, adapted variety may often be pre- 

 ferable for planting to well developed seed brought 

 from a different climate. There are many good 

 makes of fanning mills and grain graders. The 

 writer prefers for general use the ordinary fanning 

 mill with proper sieves and screens for removing 

 weed seeds and small and broken grains, and which 

 allows for a strong blast which will remove the 



