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WHEAT AFTER CLOVER. 



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by reason of the well known facl, that all thin 

 crops suffer more from that distemper than such as 

 are thicker. 



hi regard to drilling, the various directions 

 given in the spring Calendars, relative to accurately 

 ploughing the lands either for one stroke of the 

 drill-machine, or for a bout of it, are equally ap- 

 plicable to drilling wheat. The operations are the 

 same, and therefore to dwell on them needless ; 

 but, it should be remembered, that in ploughing 

 all lays, the use of the skim-coulter is very great, 

 and in some cases indispensable : an effective har- 

 rowing should precede the drill. The quantity of 

 seed the same as in dibbling. 



A very singular experiment of Mr. Ducket's, on 

 preparing a clover lay for wheat, should here be 

 mentioned : he had a field in which wheat rarely 

 escaped being greatly root-fallen : riot to lose 

 sowing it with that grain, and at the same time to 

 guard against the experienced malady, he scarified 

 it repeatedly, till he had torn up the clover, and 

 also gained tilth enough for drilling in ; then he 

 collected the clover fragments, and carted them 

 into the farm -yard to make dung, and drilled the 

 field : the wheat having a firm bottom in an un- 

 stirred soil, cscnprd the disease, ?md yielded an 

 ample produce: very singular husbandry, and ad- 

 mirably adapted to the peculiarity of the soil. 

 The clover-bulb, which would have secured the 1 

 dreaded looseness had it been turm-d down, made 

 a large quantity of dung, and therefore was not 



lost 



