PLANTING OR SOWING WHEAT. 



and all sown with Clawson wheat with seed at the same 

 rate per acre on the ninth, sixteenth, twenty-third, and 

 thirtieth of September, and the seventh of October, 

 1878. 



"The results were as follows : Strip sown September 

 ninth yielded at the rate of thirty-three and one-fifth 

 bushels per acre ; strip sown September sixteenth yielded 

 at the rate of thirty and three-tenths bushels per acre ; 

 strip sown September twenty-third yielded at the rate of 

 twenty-six and two-fifths bushels per acre ; strip sown 

 September thirtieth yielded at the rate of thirty-two and 

 seven-tenths bushels per acre, and strip sown October 

 seventh yielded at the rate of twenty-six and one-fifth 

 bushels per acre." 



Here it will be seen that the seed sown -in the last half 

 of September yielded best. 



BENEFITS OF EARLY PLANTING. 



Some of the benefitg of early planting are that it will 

 secure a stronger growth of plants during autumn for en- 

 during the winter, giving them more power to resist any 

 calamity that may attack the crop, besides giving more 

 time for tillering-out and making a good fruitful stool ; 

 and should any grower fear that his crop will make too 

 stout a growth, he can feed it down or mow 'it off, either 

 1 being preferable to having a slim, late crop. We find 

 1 the majority of testimony among intelligent, observing 

 1 experimenters, to be largely in favor of early planting, 

 as early, at least, as the middle of September, while our 

 own opinion, from many years' experience, is that even 

 fifteen to twenty days earlier than that is preferable say 

 from the tenth of August to the first of September. 



And when the great mass of farmers come to know 



and prize the many benefits of early harvest, they will 



also see the utility of uniformly planting earlier than is 



now the common custom; this will bring forward ear- 



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