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one bushel more seed per acre than stubble land equally 

 well cultivated. It has been found advisable to sow 

 from two to three bushels of spring wheat per acre on 

 well-cultivated breaking or summerfallow, depending 

 upon the character of the land and its location, reducing 

 the amount of seed on stubble land by half a bushel to a 

 bushel, again depending upon condition. Oats should 

 be seeded at the rate of from two and a half to three 

 bushels per acre; barley at about two bushels per acre; 

 sunflowers about ten pounds, and grasses and legumes at 

 various rates according to the combinations used. As a 

 rule it is advisable to sow from twelve to fifteen pounds 

 of Western Rye grass to the acre when this is the only 

 variety being used, and this may be used as the basis 

 for determining other mixtures. 



299. Weeds. — The eradication of weeds, while a serious 

 problem, is not as acute a question in Central Alberta as 

 in districts where wind has more sweep, and where the 

 varieties of weeds have adjusted themselves to these con- 

 ditions and spread over the whole territory by means of 

 wind. The disking of stubble land following the binder, 

 the following of the plow with the packer to encourage 

 germination of seed; giving the land a stroke with the 

 drag harrow as early in the spring as it is possible to 

 work the soil, and the drag harrowing of the growing 

 crop, together with the fall cultivation of July plowed 

 sod, will gradually reduce the weed population of a foul 

 farm, and will keep a clean farm clean. 



300. Soil Drifting. — The drifting of soil will never be 

 a serious problem in Central Alberta provided methods 

 outlined in the paragraphs immediately preceding are 

 followed. The use of barnyard manure, the seeding down 



