WHEAT 



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CONTINUOUS CROPPING THE MAIN FAULT 



The fault with most wheat producing sections 

 is that the land is cropped with wheat too con- 

 tinuously. The continuous growing of wheat on 

 the same soil has always proved disastrous in 

 the course of years. This has been the history 

 of wheat farming, and largely on this account the 

 wheat-growing area of the United States has 

 moved ever westward. It appears now that most 

 of the land available for the growing of wheat has 

 been taken, and if wheat raising in this country 

 is to continue to be profitable there must be a 

 change in our methods of farming. 



Fig. 28. A typical Montana wheat field. Millions of acres like 

 these are still waiting for the plow. 



