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straw, or pine leaves upon a large field, and the ease 

 and rapidity by which yon can roll down a luxuriant 

 growth of green corn where it grew ! 



Thi< method of raising wheat, will not prevent you 

 from usino stable manure as a top dressing. 



Any time before sowing the wheat, or afterwards 

 if you wish to do it, you can drive between the rows 

 ot corn, and spread the manure from the wagons. 

 You remember that Gurney says, that manure does 

 six times more good under a mulch than when not 

 covered with anything. 



L I B U A i 



CHAPTER VIII. 



HUNGARIAN MILLET. 



One ton of Hungarian Millet in blossom, contains 

 20 pounds of nitrogen, 2 pounds of phosphoric acid, 

 17 pounds of potash and I860 pounds of water. 

 When the clover seed which was sown among the 

 wheat has failed to grow, you had better seed the 

 field, in the spring with Hungarian grass. That is it 

 you intend to alternate a green and grain crop in 

 succession. 



As soon as all danger is over from frosts, sow one 

 bushel per acre of the Hungarian seed, when the 

 ground is in a good mellow condition, and then roll 

 it in. As soon as this crop comes in blossom, sow 

 over it a half bushel more of seed per acre. Then 

 with your mowing machine, cut it down, and leave 

 it on the ground. Having cut it so early, it will 

 sprout up, and with the last sowing, you will have 

 two crops growing together, and being shaded by the 

 first, will be equal to it in weight and value. 



