Show WHEAT GROWING We Ye find this tommyrot in a distinguished New NewYork NewYork NewYork York maga magazine ine we realize it or not growing wheat for Lor sale saie from fromar ar mr 11 farms can be only temporary t L Iter fter a few years ears the time land refuses to yield profitable prof prof- crops Recuperative farming must be resorted resorted resorted re re- re- re sorted to in order to build up a soil robbed by byr y r 1 ain Hin growing For this reason reason the time older prairie and don don state fate farmers turned to grass corn ai a. soon as the they could bring about the time rt I. I hop flour and thereby keep up Upito of if soil ito Mo their Some Sonic things in the time above are true but not notman many man Of course coune perpetual wheat planting on the same soil year ear after year year e r will exhaust it for it-for for raising raising raising rais rais- ing wheat but but constant t pl planting of cotton or tobacco tobacco to to- bacco will ivill likewise make barren the land The prairie farm rs turned to corn and stock tock raising for two or three reasons The first was because the prairie prairie lands lauds in the time Mississippi i valley vaHey arc are p perfect et corn lands lauds and are not perfect wheat lands Again ho time labor of raising corn stock can be distributed distributed dis dis- over many months mouths in the time year Jear wheat has hasto hasto to lo bo hO grown at a n certain time and there must boLO bo he JC LO to o delay in harvesting it Again wheat exhausts time the nitrogen in th the soil hence should not be planted two years in iii succession on the same soil The Thelan lan laud l should be given the benefit of summer fallowing fallowing fallow fallow- ing imig and when a crop of or wheat is intended for next year car a crop of clover beans or some other nitrogen absorber from the air should be bo planted this But there is a section of the state of New York which has raised wheat every overy other year save year save for fora a few years ears when the time weevil wee destroyed it for it-for for a century and it raises more bushels to the acre now than titan it did when time the forests were first cleared is the time corn of the time Bible and is wp we believe the time only grain mentioned except barle barley r and when planted with any sense never exhausts the time soil |