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YOii have as miTcli as toh wish to sow that day. Then 

 sift on good slacked lime gradually, while another per- 

 son follows aronnd the heap or stirs it with a shovel, or 

 with a rake. Pnt on lime until the wheat will not 

 stick together. Then let it be sown and immediately 

 coTered. The lime ^^nll then continue to stick to the 

 wheat, and furnish fertilizing material to promote the 

 growth of the young wheat plants. 



A wheat-grower in Western Xew York has com- 

 municated his manner of preparing seed wheat as fol- 

 lows : " Before sowing, prepare a strong brine. Half a 

 barrel will be needed to pickle as little as four or five 

 bushels of grain, but, of course, would answer for much 

 more, and to this quantity add half a pound of blue 

 vitriol (sidj)hate of copper^. A portion is done at a 

 time, stu'ring it well, and skimming oft' all that floats, 

 dirt, foul stuft', smutty grains, etc. As fast as each por- 

 tion is soaked, throw it out into a basket to di'ain. The 

 pickling should be done four to twelve hours before 

 sowing. Just previous to sowing, the grain should be 

 spread out upon a clean floor and rolled in lime slacked 

 to a diy powder, stirring the heap with rakes.'' 



The Stab Deill. 



The implement represented by the illustration shown 

 on the next page, is the combined Star Drill " and Cul- 

 tivator, a part of which is represented on page 296 of 

 this book. Here the land-roller and the seed-sowing 

 attachment are shown, in connection ^dth the small 

 ploughs, 



TThen this implement is employed for putting in 

 grain, the seed is taken from the seed-box by means of 



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