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done. The sod should be turned over evenly, smooth- 
ly and completely, and not with a patch every rod or 
two standing on edge so that the grass on it has al- : 
most as good a chance to grow as itever had. It is 
just as easy to do the work well as in this slip-shod 
manner. : 
Then the back-setting should be thoroughly done, 
and in doing it the plow should be run deep, so as to 
throw up aliberal quantity of the loose, rich soil. 
The right kind of work in preparing the ground 
and putting in the crops, will almost insure from 
twenty-five to a hundred per cent, larger crops. I 
have seen many fields of wheat that did not average 
over fifteen bushels per acre, when twenty-five, or 
even thirty bushels might have been had by proper 
cultivation. And the same is true of all other crops. 
. [commenced breaking as soon as my wheat and 
oats were sown. Hired twelve acres done at $3.50 
per.acre, and did the balance of the fifty acres my- 
self, and planted twenty-five acres in corn, and the 
same in potatoes. 
HELPING SOD CROPS. 
~ It is generally understood that sod corn and pota- 
toes need no cultivation whatever, and they don’t 
need very much. But if the facinne will take a sharp 
hoe, late in June or early in July, and go over his 
fields, cutting down all weeds and grass that may 
have made their appearance, and loosening the earth 
a little around the hills of corn, he will find that the 
