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208. Pasturing wheat. Farmers in the winter-wheat district 

 sometimes make a practice of pasturing wheat in the fall and 

 sometimes during the winter and early spring. If this is judi- 

 ciously done, much valuable feed may be saved by fall pasturing, 



FIG. 79. Threshing wheat in Japan and in the United States 



without material injury to the grain. Spring pasturing is seldom 

 advisable, and should be avoided when the ground is soft. To 

 obtain the benefit of the fall pasture one sometimes seeds so 

 early that his wheat is injured by the Hessian fly. 



