Show HARRO WING SOWED GRAIN I The American Agriculturist furnishes furn-ishes in a late number some usefnl suggestions on harrowing fall and spring grain which induce us to offer a few additional remarks on the subject sub-ject mostly the result of many years experiment The writer in the Agriculturist describes the process by which a field of oats was harrowed seven times with a common barrow with manifest advantage The ground waa R light j and sandy alluvium allu-vium plowed the previous autumn A pare of the field was topdre > l3 ed with compost before sowing the oats and the remainder immediately afterwards after-wards The last mentioned topdrtei lug seomatl to answer bsst 03 it served as a mulch at the time the oats were coming uP and was better puiverzad and mixed with the soil The ommon uetve harrow being used ita first pacing tore out some plants of the Olitil and buried others but cars being taken to run the teeth in toe aame tracks every time lsa l disturbance occurred oubdfquently Tbe teeth cat furrows and ranged I tbe plans somewhat an if i sowed by N i drill The Wteds were killed wholesale whole-sale Toe crop way sowed about tae middle of April and the harrowing took place at irregular intervals between be-tween May 2 and Jun3 12 Toe weeds were well cleared out by these several oparAtioua and the last one buried and destroyed a crop of purs lane just making its appearance at the urfacf The cata were more than a loot high and were much flattened down by the harrow We are no informed what the increase in-crease was in tbe amount of the crop consequent on the seven borrowings aa the oat bad not been cut end no fatiruate had been made As all I the field appears to haste been treated i alike there wa probably no means Oi learning tbe amount of increase effected ef-fected li I i I |