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Preparing for Wheat. 
D. E., Medford, Md .—I have a field on 
part of which the clover failed to catch. 
Wheat was harvested from it last year. 
I use a five-year rotation—grass, corn, 
wheat or oats in cornstalks, wheat seeded 
(o grass, and grass two years. I had 
thought the part of field mentioned above 
might be plowed and sown to some crop 
lliat could be plowed down for wheat this 
Fall, and seed it to clover and let it come 
into corn in the regular rotation. I would 
not get much benefit of the grass, but my 
main object is to improve the land. It 
is a heavy clay loam, considerably rolling. 
When in this rotation would you apply 
lime, and how, and in what quantity? 
Ans. —You can now sow Black cow 
peas at rate of one bushel per acre af¬ 
ter breaking the wheat stubble well. 
FiG. 251. 
Sow the peas broadcast or drill them 
in with a wheat drill. An application 
of 300 pounds per acre of acid phos¬ 
phate will greatly improve the peas 
and help - the wheat too. But I would 
not turn the whole crop under, for 
plowing that late is not good for the 
wheat, and the burying of a heavy mass 
of vines will prevent your getting the 
land into the well-compacted condition 
best for wheat. You can mow the peas 
for hay and cure them late in August, 
just as you would clover, putting them 
in the barn while still somewhat limp, 
and letting them finish curing there. 
That is, cut them when the pods turn 
yellow, and cure mainly in the cocks 
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till no sap can be wrung from a hard 
twist, and then put them in and let 
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will have better feed than clover hay. 
Then prepare the stubble with the disk 
or Cutaway, making the surface as fine 
as possible, but letting the lower soil 
remain settled from the earlier plowing. 
If lime is needed on the land you can 
spread it and harrow it in the prepara¬ 
tion for the wheat. I have found it 
better to apply not over 25 bushels of 
freshly slaked lime per acre once in 
five or six years than to use a heavier 
application less frequently. 
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The Grass in Sprayed Orchards. 
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