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Show Sowing Wheat. An Ohio farmer says in the New York World: As a general rulo I have found that early sown wheat seems to do the best, -anfl where tlicjfroivmr -is- put into tirst rate condition by a thorough plowing and harrowing, if the seeding is early, at least a fairly good crop will be the result. re-sult. Of course we are liable to unfavorable unfa-vorable seasons, when the-best husbandry will not produco a good crop. Drilling Drill-ing is now the common method for seeding seed-ing wheat, and the use of fertilizers baa made the wheat crop a much more certain cer-tain one than it was formerly, at a time when failures had become so common in this state as greatly to discourage many from attempting to raise it. Not less than 200 pounds of fertilizer should be used to the acre, and more would often be better. It is important for the young wheat to get a good start and acquire a vigorous growth of well rooted plants, so as to safely pass through the winter and spring. This early start is materially mate-rially aided by the fertilizer, and its usa is further required from the fact that most of our wheat lands are now more or less deficient in necessary elements that commercial manures adapted to tho crop will supply. On well prepared ground about six pecks of clean seed to the acre will be enough, and if drilled in two inches deep during the last weeks of September, a renumerative crop may be reasonably expected. |