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How THE FARM PAYS. 



Q. Why cannot the drill be followed by grass as well as when 

 sown broadcast? 



A. For the reason that the drill leaves a furrow after it which the 

 grass seed drops into, leaving a clear space of five or six inches 

 between the rows of grass, which would be too wide. By plowing the 

 seed wheat under we get an even surface for the grass. 



Q. Then you mean to say that by drilling, you could not get as 

 heavy and even a crop of grass as by sowing the wheat broadcast, 

 plowing it under and sowing the grass seed after in the usual way ? 



A. We could not. By plowing in the seed we get a uniform surface 

 over the wheat, and having this smooth surface for the grass seed, we 

 get a much better stand. 



KEMP S MANURE SPREADER. 



Q. When following corn with wheat at about what date do you 

 begin to plow? 



A. We commence cutting our corn about the 1st of September 

 and clear it off the field, placing it in shocks, either on an adjacent 

 grass lot, or by the fences, so as to get the land clear for sowing the 

 wheat, which we generally put in from the 15th to the 20th of 

 September. 



Q. This is your experience with the wheat crop following corn. 

 Does it differ in any way when the wheat follows potatoes ? 



A. Yes. The potato land having been thoroughly manured in the 

 spring, and well cultivated by the use of the cultivators and plow, I 

 do not manure for the wheat crop. The land is usually in such 

 good condition that it does not need additional manure for the 

 wheat; with too much manure wheat grows rank and weak, and is apt 

 to fall down and lodge, and the crop is then injured. 



