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seed of rust, smut, or other fungus that may be clinging to 

 the grain. All the 

 steeps mentioned are 

 useful, and without 

 entering into their re- 

 spective merits, it may 

 be added that some of 

 them should be used. 

 The grain can either be 

 set into the steep in 

 baskets, or the liquid 

 can be sprinkled over 

 the seed, which is all the 



better Of a dusting With Hand Seed-Sower for Grain, Grass, Ac. 



lime or ashes before sowing. A fair steep is made by 

 dissolving in hot water lb. bluestone per bag of seed, 

 which takes up about two gallons of water. 



Sheep and Wheat. To bring land into heart that has 



become too poor for this 

 grain, the Australian 

 farmer has two power- 

 ful aids in his sheep and 

 cattle. Grass land eaten 

 clown closely (as it 

 generally is in small 

 paddocks about the be- 

 ginning of the year), 



Broadcast Seed-Sower. when Well Worked, offers 



a fine seed-bed, and by feeding lucerne to the stock the 

 land soon regains the strength it has lost. When the yield 

 falls below 10 bushels per acre the land is too poor for 

 wheat. 



Science in Wheat Farming. In a recent lecture to the 

 Liverpool Plains Agricultural Association, the author gave 

 the following particulars of how wheat is built up in the 

 field : The nature of wheat of its component parts had 

 received very close attention at the Technical College, and 

 searching analyses had been made of the different 

 substances it obtains from the soil, and what from the 

 Atmosphere. An impression existed that if we had rain 



