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dust, one bushel plaster, and one bushel of salt per acre. 

 Second, five two-horse loads of wood mould or swamp muck, 

 two hundred pounds superphosphate; one hundred pounds 

 Peruvian guano, one peck plaster, and one bushel salt per acre. 

 Third, three hundred pounds superphosphate, twenty bushels 

 leached ashes, one peck plaster and one bushel salt per acre. 

 Salt in some form we believe to be necessary on all wheat lands 

 for perman'ent cultivation; refuse salt can be obtained from 

 fish, beef, and pork dealers, at a nominal price. A correspond- 

 ent of the American Farmer writes that "he mixes five 

 busliels of salt with ten of air-slacked lime, lets it stand three 

 months, turns it three times during that period, and sows three 

 bushels of the mixture per acre before the last harrowing." 

 This is an excellent method of using it. 



John Johnston, the veteran farmer of Geneva, New York, 

 says that he has sowed five bushels of salt per acre, and believes 

 that for every bushel of salt, he got an extra bushel of wheat, 

 besides hastening the ripening several days, by which meansi 

 his crop escaped the ravages of the midge. Let every wheat- 

 grower test the value of salt on his own lands, by using it on 

 one portion of his field, and carefully noting the results. Clover, 

 as we have before stated, is the most efficacious of all green 

 crops to plow under for wheat. It is also economical. Calculate 

 the cost. One peck seed, $2.50 ; one hundred pounds plaster, 

 70 cents; labor, hauling, sowing, etc., $1.00; or $4.20 per 

 acre. But, after all, we must still depend largely on rich 

 barnyard manure, and fatten the land through a regular 

 rotation of crops ; especially with a view to the wheat crop. 



Says S. Edwards Todd, agricultural editor of the New 

 York Times, for many years a careful wheat culturist, and 

 always a close observer: "After a wet soil has been thorou^ghly 

 uuderdrained, so that there are no apprehensions that the young 



