188 



THE "WHEAT CULTTJEIST. 



niired your land boimtifullj, plough deep and put in your 

 grain early ; and do not be afraid of planting the seed 

 too deep. Keep yonr old-fashioned, iron-toothed har- 

 rows oft* the land where seed wheat has been sowed ; 

 because this style of harrow does not work the grain 

 into the soil as deep as the seed should be buried. And 

 more than this, the more you harrow mellow ground 

 with such a harrow, the harder it becomes. Procure a 

 good cultivator harrow, as such implements work like a 

 charm, leaving the ground light, and bury the seed as 

 deep as it should be covered. I sow spring wheat of 

 the French Tea variety." 



Geowtn-g Wheat axd Tuexips. 



" No bone-dust, no turnips ; no turnips no wheat ; 

 Ifo wheat and no turnips, no cattle no meat ; 

 No turnips, no cattle, nor manure in the yard, 

 Makes bills for the doctors, and farming go hard." 



If there is any one practice among American farmers, 

 for which they deserve sharp rebuke, it is for permitting 

 such immense quantities of bones to be exported for the 

 improvement of the agriculture of foreign nations. 

 Thousands of tons of bones are collected annually in 

 Chicago, Buftalo, l^ew York, and other populous cities, 

 and shipped to European countries to fertilize the land 

 for raising turnips, wheat, fat cattle, and sheep. And 

 yet, American farmers, in stupid quietude, look on and 

 say : "It don't pay to collect bones, and apply them to 

 the soil." 



It will pay. They have not tested the application of 

 ground bone. There is not a meadow nor a pasture in 

 the land — with very few exceptions — that will not be 



