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continuous rainfall mose or less. The depth varies 

 all the way from i to 3 inches, but a practice 

 usually followed by the farmers is to sow about 

 I inch in depth, giving the seed this amount of 

 moist soil for covering. Often the wheat field is 

 cloddy and rough, and in cases of this kind a greater 

 depth is desirable, not only to secure better ger- 

 mination, but also to give better covering. 



When corn and potatoes are followed by wheat, 

 a good depth is usually secured providing the disk- 

 harrow has been run over once or twice previous 

 to seeding. The potato bed ought always to pro- 

 vide an ideal seed bed. Often in corn land the 

 weeds and hard surfaces make the bed unfit to 

 start with, and too much seeding is done on this 

 kind of land. Before seeding in cases of this nature 

 a disking or double disking and even a cross disk- 

 ing is advisable. So given the grower is reason- 

 ably certain that the seed will be put deep enough 

 in the soil to secure proper germination and to get 

 the plant going rightly that it may pass through 

 the winter without danger or injury. In case the 

 soil is mellow, and loose, and the season more or 

 less dry, a good rolling often will help out very 

 much to start germination. If the rolling is done 

 after seeding just as soon as the moisture begins to 

 leave the soil run the peg-tooth harrow over the 

 ground. This will make a mulch, the moisture in 

 the soil will be held and the crop will push vigor- 

 ously forward. 



Fertilizing Wheat Lands. — Practically every 

 form of -fertilizer is applied to wheat lands. Some 

 like raw bone meal, tankage and basic slag as car- 

 riers of phosphoric acid, because they feel these 



