SOWING WHEAT. 65 



that it sustains better than any other corn the 

 inclemencies of our own changeful skies, and 

 the disadvantages of our most unfavourable 

 seasons. Wheat may be compared to a very 

 sensible person, who likes and enjoys good 

 things as well as any one, but can put up with 

 bad circumstances better than most other per- 

 sons. It thrives in a temperate climate, a fine 

 shining season, a rich soil, and under good 

 management ; yet, when all these are reversed, 

 so that other things perish, this hardy plant will 

 live, produce its seed, and supply, in some 

 measure, the table of even the least worthy 

 husbandman. 



Wheat, for the main crops, is always sown in 

 the autumn, and generally on land which has 

 been a fallow the preceding season, or which 

 has produced some different crop, and been 

 well manured. It was the general practice of 

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