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the first of March be chopped down, and allowed to re- 

 main on the surface." 



I perceive serious objections to this system of seeding. 

 The first is, the great injury done to the growing corn, 

 by the teeth of the tools and horse implements, which 

 will tear up the roots of the corn, to the great injury of 

 the crop. Indian corn needs no root-pruning. Horse- 

 hoes cannot be employed between the rows after the 

 plants have put out their tassels, without seriously in- 

 juring the roots, which often extend two or three feet 

 down the stems. Sowing seed wheat among growing 

 corn may be well for the wheat plants, but it will be 

 exceedingly injurious to the crop of Indian corn. 



Another consideration of some little account is this : 

 When sowing wheat among growing corn, the large and 

 broad leaves of the growing plants will gather many of 

 the kernels, and thus prevent their falling to the ground 

 in due time to take root before winter. And much of 

 the grain would be destroyed by exposure to alternate 

 wet and sunshine, while the kernels are lodged in the 

 stems of corn. 



Sowing Wheat on Coen Stueble. 



The practice of sowing wheat on corn ground, in 

 autumn, used to be more in vogue than it is at the 

 present day. In the Middle and Eastern States, farm- 

 ers were accustomed to sow winter wheat in autumn, 

 after a crop of Indian corn had been removed ; but the 

 practice is now nearly abandoned. A writer in the 

 " Ohio Farmer" states, that " it is still the practice with 

 a few farmers, on the rich lands of Ohio, and other 

 States, to sow land to wheat in the fall, on which corn 



