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less the land is very free from noxious weeds of all kinds, 

 and grass that will not decay readily, and the soil in an 

 excellent state of fertility. When the land is at all foul, 

 and any kind of grass has taken possession of the soil 

 -which will grow up after ploughing, before the wheat 

 can come up, a farmer may about as well sow his seed 

 wheat in a pastm-e field, with the expectation of growing 

 a fair crop of grain. Wheat will not thrive at the same 

 time where noxious grass flourishes. 



Sowing Wheat among Indian Cokn. 



In some parts of the West, where the soil is so fertile 

 that farmers entertain the erroneous notion that its fer- 

 tility is inexhaustible, the practice is in vogue of sowing 

 seed wheat among the growing corn, and covering the 

 seed with the horse-hoe and hand-hoes, in the latter part 

 of summer, or even in September. A farmer writes to 

 one of our Western papers, that " sowing wheat among 

 standing corn is an excellent practice when done by 

 competent workmen. The most successful plan will be 

 found to plant the corn in rows five or six feet apart, 

 and the hills in the rows two feet apart. The plough- 

 ings, horse-hoeings, and dressing with the steel-tooth 

 cultivator, will all require to be done in one direction 

 across the field, and not in right-angular rows, as is the 

 common practice; and before the wheat is sown, the 

 ground should be made level with a steel-tooth cultivator 

 or harrow. The time for seeding should be the last of 

 August ; the quantity sown per acre, two bushels — and 

 the seed should be ploughed in, putting the whole field 

 into lands the width of the rows of corn. The stalks 

 may remain on the ground during winter, and about 



