IQQ HOAY TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



Wheat, if properly stacked, can be kept nearly as well out 

 of doors as in ; but not in the way it is usually done. Says 

 Mr. Todd : " A fliriner should never attempt to stack his own 

 grain until he is sure he knows how, and he can never be sure 

 of that until lie has a vivid recollection of the time Avhen he 

 did not know how. In Great Britain it has long been the cus- 

 tom to secure grain in stacks, and they have brought the art to 

 a great deal of perfection, and every farmer who has not learned 

 the art himself, should secure the services of some English, 

 Welsh, or Scotch farmer to do that job for him, until he has 

 thoroughly acquired the art himself." 



Spring Wheat. There are some special directions necessary 

 in regard to spring wheat, or wheat sown in the spring, instead 

 of the fall, for this is the only difference between the two. 

 Some varieties are better adapted to spring sowing ; but winter 

 wheat can be made spring wheat and vice versa. After the 

 crops are off in the fall, the ground can be thoroughly mellowed, 

 the frosts will still more completely pulverize it; and, in t!io 

 spring, this winter fallowed ground will be in splendid condition 

 for the seed. If you sow wheat in the spring, prepare the soil 

 in the previous autumn, and then you will be able to take ad- 

 vantage of the first opportunity. Light soils are better adapted 

 to spring wheat than heavy soils, yet very light soils should not 

 be winter fallowed. 



Sow spring wheat as early as the ground will admit. If you 

 defer plowing until spring, your seeding will be too late, 

 especially if the spring is wet. Sow your wheat in the mud if 

 your soil was thoroughly prepared in the autumn ; but do not 

 sow until the hard frosts are passed. With a hardy variety of 

 spring wheat, retaining the character of the winter wheat from 

 which it sprung, it may be sown as soon as it can be got two 

 inches into the ground ; but such are not most of our spring 



