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WHEAT 



In conclusion, the farmer who carries out a 

 proper system of crop rotation, as described in 

 these pages, growing wheat on only a part of his 

 fields each season, may produce more wheat on 

 one-third or one-half of his farm in the next forty 

 years than he would produce by continually 

 growing wheat on all his land. The crops used in 

 rotation will give an additional profit when fed 

 to live stock, and if the manure is saved, and 

 returned to the soil, with perhaps a little phosphate 

 and limestone, as may be required, the fertility 

 of the land should be maintained and its produc- 

 tiveness increased. Such a practice carried on for 

 100 or 1,000 years should give similar results. 



