PLAN OF SOWING. 549 



T. G. BOLTON, 



PLAINVIEW, WABASHA COUNTY. 



Crood Wheat Country — Methods of Raising It — Stock — Sheep 

 Yard and Hog Pen. 



A FINE WHEAT COUNTRY. 



My farm is situated on Greenwood Prairie, in southern. 

 Minnesota, a locality already widely known as one of the very 

 best wheat producing regions in the State. For a long time 

 wheat raising was found to be so profitable, bringing such 

 quick and sure returns, that no other branch of husbandry 

 had scarcely a trial. But with a climate that is just about 

 right, and a soil that is unsurpassed for general farming pur- 

 poses, we are gradually drifting into diversified farming. 



GRAIN RAISED. 



On a farm of two hundred acres, I had this year one hun- 

 dred acres wheat, ten acres barley, twenty acres oats, twenty 

 acres clover, twenty acres timothy, twenty acres corn, and the 

 remainder in pasturage. 



These crops have all yielded well with me this year,, 

 except wheat, which is of good quality but limited in quantity* 

 owing to unfavorable weather just before harvest. 



METHOD. 



My plan on this farm for eight years past has been to sow 

 at least twenty acres of grass each Spring, sowing four quarts 

 each of timothy and clover per acre, with the wheat, by mix- 

 ing the grass seeds and the wheat thoroughly together, on the 

 granary floor. They may be sown in tlie ordinary broadcast 

 seeders, just as though the wheat were handled alone. 

 After harvest the grass will be found as evenly distributed 

 as it could have been done in any other way. 



The following year the clover predominates, so much so- 



