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forage on hand to keep the stock through the winter, 

 and if you need more, instead of cutting a second 

 crop of clover, better sow one or more acres of buck- 

 wheat, and top-dress it with piaster and bone dust, 

 or super-phosphate, unless the land is already good ; 

 and before the equinoctial storms of September, you 

 may have from the buckwheat, three or four tons of 

 good hay per acre It contains two-thirds as much 

 nitrogen, and more phosphoric acid, and more potash 

 than clover hay. 



If wet weather should prevent you from making it 

 into hay. you can plow it in for wheat, and no loss 

 will occur. 



Even buckwheat straw, after you have thrashed 

 out the grain, should be saved for hay. It contains 

 four times as much nitrogen, four times as much 

 potash, and three times a; much pbosphoric acid as 

 wheat straw ! 



John Johnston once said to Harris : ** I should have 

 made more money if I had found out the value of 

 straw for fodder fifteen years earlier." 



He alludes, of course, to the straw from his 

 immense crops of wheat. 



No wonder farmers can not raise corn after buck- 

 wheat, when seed and straw have all been removed 

 They say, it poisons the land. So does a check on 

 the bank, when it removes all your deposits. But 

 plow the money into the bank, and it will antidote 

 all the poison. 



That buckwheat is beneficial as a green dressing, 

 the following may be relied upon. 



" We cannot," says the editor of the Theatre of 



