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has been grown the same season. A sod is turned over 

 for corn, npon which manure is spread, if the land is 

 not rich enough without it, and as soon as the corn is 

 cut and stooked in the fall, the land is harrowed to 

 level the corn rows, and the wheat is drilled in. The 

 stooks of corn are placed in rows as far apart as pos- 

 sible, and the drill runs close to them, lea^dng un- 

 seeded the space occupied by the stooks, which are set 

 in as straight rows as possible, so as to leave as little 

 land unseeded as possible. The land is seeded down 

 to such grasses as are desired at the same time the 

 wheat is so^vn. 



"It is said that good crops of wheat are grown in 

 this way, but only on lands that are in good fertility, 

 and where the corn has been well cultivated. It saves 

 one season in time, and one ploughing, whicli are objects 

 of importance ; but the unseeded strips where the corn 

 stooks are placed, make this system less satisfactory than 

 it would be, if the entire field could be seeded down at 

 once. The unseeded strips, however, may be harrowed 

 early in the following spring, and seeded down to the 

 same grasses that were sowed on other parts of the field, 

 and after harvesting the wheat the entire field would be 

 uniform." 



There is a plausible objection to sowing winter wheat 

 after corn, where the crop of corn is not removed from 

 the ground before the wheat is sowed, which is this : after 

 the wheat has come up, the blades are exceedingly ten- 

 der ; and by driving teams and wagons over the grow- 

 ing plants to remove the grain and the stalks, and by 

 the bruising and crushing of the leaves by the feet of 

 laborers, when husking, the growing wheat is materially 

 injured, so that the yield will be several bushels of grain 



