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high, according to the quality of the soil, and the 

 warmth and wetness of the season. Then sow the 

 seed between the rows, and fluke it in, and if the 

 corn is over three feet high, roll it down acioss the 

 furrows. If the corn is below three feet in highth, 

 let it stand. 



Now mark the result in both cases. 



No blasting- winds in winter, nor in the early spring 

 can injure the wheat. The drifting snows will be 

 retained and help to shelter it The soil, powdered 

 by freezing and drying, into fine dust will not be 

 blown away. No drouths will check its growth. 

 The ground v/ill always be found moist and mellow 

 beneath the mulch. Even the rows of corn, which 

 may only be a frot high, will attract the surface roots 

 of the wheat to banquet in the moist and moldering 

 dust beneath their dense shade And when it decays 

 in the warm days of spring, the rains will leach out 

 its soluble elements and saturate the soil with them, 

 and do more good to the ripening wheat, than the 

 same amount of green fodder fed to cattle and the 

 residue returned to the field. 



To establish these high claims for Indian corn, and 

 the great necessity of shelter for winter wheat, I will 

 quote a few words, from John Johnston, the groat 

 Apostle of Agriculture, whom we have already pre- 

 sented, as the powerful advocate of surface manuring. 



He says : " Wherever the wheat was exposed to 

 the west and northwest it is greatly damaged, and I 

 fear considerable of it is ruined. I have 18 acres of 

 Soules wheat, about five of which is sheltered by 

 growing timber from the west and north west th at 



