24 CULTIVATION OF WHEAT* 



wheat and grass back into the soil. Then your crop 

 will proceed to grow vigorously, and your soil to im- 

 prove rapidly. Your wheat land is left under clover 

 and timothy, and you should not turn any kind of 

 stock on your stubble field ; but have your stubble ra* 

 ked as carefully as possible, by which means you 

 will save all your scattered wheat. You should by 

 no means pasture any of your lands which you intend 

 for cultivation and wish to improve ; for the cropping 

 of the clover or grass exposes the lands to the direct 

 rays of the sun, which, as before observed, carry off 

 by evaporation the richness of the soil. 



NoTE.^-I have known one gallon of wheat raised 

 from a single grain, in the garden of Wm. Brinckley, 

 of Milford, State of Delaware. The reader, no doubt, 

 will be anxious to know how it was effected. I will 

 gratify so laudable a curiosity. The grain of wheat 

 was planted early in the Spring, and continued to 

 grow until the month of June, when it was taken up, 

 seperated into ninety branches, and then transplanted 

 one foot apart each way. It was then cultivated with 

 a hoe through the summer, and that wheat branched 

 as luxuriantly as the first; so that the whole space of 

 ground was filled up the next Summer. The wheat 

 was cut and threshed, and measured, to the astonish- 

 ment of many, one gallon. 



From this the frugal farmer may see how much 

 may be raised by putting in wheat carefully, and by 

 taking good care to have the land covered in Winter 

 with the same ki'nd of straw. 



