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Show BUCKWHEAT FOR CATCH CROP Plant Will Grow Well on Land Lacking Lack-ing in Fertility, but Responds Quickly to Good Treatment. Buckwheat Is recommended by F. W. Slemple of the fiirin crops department, depart-ment, Ohio State university, for ground where the spring crops have failed or it Is too lata to plant corn. This cereal ce-real can be planted from July 1 to 10 and be ready for harvest In six or eight weeks. The land can then be cropped In a regular rotation again. Buckwheat will grow well on land lacking) in fertility and on ground leaa carefully prepared than for other grains hut will respond quickly t" good treatment, it is frequently ffVd by farmers as i weed eradlcator. be cause It grows quickly and covers the ground almost completely. One bushel sown fjrosdcssi is sufficient to seed an acre. |