CULTIVATION OP WHEAT* &O 



and by the time the frost takes the buckwheat, it will 

 be from eighteen inches to two feet high. The frost 

 will kill the buckwheat, but the straw will remain 5 

 which will keep the land warm and the wheat will re- 

 main beautifully green all Winter, with the clover and 

 timothy. Your wheat will branch from ten to fifteen 

 times, and will branch again in the Spring following. 

 By this mode of seeding, your wheat will be as 

 thick as it can stand, and as high as your chin. 



It is an undeniable fact, that you will never fail to 

 make a crop by this mode of procedure. The Win- 

 ter cannot kill your wheat, clover or grass, for the 

 straw which remains on the land from the buckwheat 

 will preserve and keep them warm, as was observed 

 before. 



If there should be a small fall of snow together with 

 a wind, the snow will lodge in the straw, which will 

 retain it and keep it from blowing o(F. The crop of 

 straw will prevent the evaporation of the frosts in win- 

 ter, for as the Nitre that leaves the earth which makes 

 the frost on the underside of a plank which lies on 

 the ground would evaporate in the air, if the plank 

 were not there, so it is the case with all lands which 

 are lelt in a naked and exposed state. If your lands 

 are covered with grass they will retain the Nitre un- 

 til next day, when it will dissolve and fall back into 

 the soil, thus rendering your land constantly richer. 

 In the Spring, so soon as the hard frosts are over, 

 jour land should again be rolled, so as to set the 



