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nience feeding them to hogs on the land, while the peas 

 are still green." 



SHEEP IN CONNECTION WITH WHEAT. 



Although bountiful crops of wheat may be produced 

 by the application of commercial fertilizers to the soil, 

 still the true way to grow wheat successfully is to keep 

 sheep and make mutton, and at the same time employ 

 their ' manure to maintain the fertility of the soil. 

 Bountiful crops of wheat can be grown in connection 

 with fatting neat cattle and hogs, or horses, provided 

 the animals get a liberal supply of coarse grain ; and 

 providing also their manure be saved with care and ap- 

 plied to the soil. Farmers may set it down as an incon 

 trovertible fact, that they cannot grow wheat of any 

 kind successfully, without applying to the soil some kind 

 of fertilizing material that will supply an abundance of 

 grain-producing pabulum in the soil for the develop- 

 ment of the wheat kernels. I will reiterate what will 

 bear repeating again and again, that if the land be ma- 

 nured with strawy manure, the crops of wheat will be 

 mostly straw, with a small yield of grain. We cannot 

 cheat any soil by manuring with haulm, and think to 

 get a heavy yield of grain. If the ground be enriched 

 with grain-producing material, a farmer can hardly fail 

 to realize a fair crop. One of the most efficacious ways 

 to secure a bountiful yield of wheat would be to sow 

 wheat flour, or drill it in with the seed grain. 



If I desired to produce the largest crop of wheat that 

 had ever been grown, after enriching the soil with a 

 liberal dressing of the best manure, I would sow thirty 

 or forty bushels of wheat flour per acre, drilling it in 



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