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THE WHEAT OULTURIST. 



With three strong horses, or with a yoke of oxen and 

 a span of horses attached to such a cultivator, which 

 cuts a through four or five feet in width, one man will 

 be able to prepare a number of acres in a day. The 

 three-horse cultivator requires a strong and heavy team. 

 I would advise a man to be jperfectly satisfied that he 

 needs a three-horse cultivator before he orders one. 

 But there is no danger that a two-horse cultivator will 

 be too large and heavy. 



How TO Raise Wheat on a Poor Soil. 



I fancy that numerous readers will say : " J^ow, my 

 land is poor, the soil thin and unfertile ; how may I 

 raise a fair crop of wheat ? " Well, you can't expect 

 to do it in one year, nor in two seasons. In order to 

 bring poor land into the proper condition to give us 

 good crops of wheat, we must adopt a better system of 

 culture. The land must be worked to a greater depth, 

 be more thoroughly pulverized, and have suitable fer- 

 tilizing material liberally applied. Where necessary, 

 the surface must be underdrained to the better warming, 

 draining, and aerification of the soil. When we ac- 

 complish this, we shall find that as good crops will be 

 realized as in former days ; and those destructive insect 

 enemies, which are the dread of all wheat-growers, will 

 be defeated, especially where we adopt a system of ro- 

 tation, raising crops for feeding stock, and manuring 

 with especial reference to this crop, and growing from 

 a less area a greater amount of grain or other crops. 

 We must adopt an alternation of growing the cereals 

 with the leguminous and root crops, and feed them out, 

 applying the manure made therefrom to the soil. Such 



