Show TO RAISE BUCKWHEAT crop fills best in a rather cool season makes good feed for almost all al animals and has nutritive ratio olnear ono one to seven helps greatly in ridding of 0 weeds gy by A J ly lutao ima buckwheat Is in a crop that thai can be cown any time after the danger from rost la is over up tip to about the first ot of august with reasonable success the buckwheat usually nils alls best in a rather cool season and tit in localities where midsummer la Is very hot it Is best beat to defer sowing tho the buckwheat until late in tho the season so as to give from 60 to 70 days for or it to mature a crop before frost froit sixty days Is sufficient tor for a crop to anake itself usually tho the grain makes a good feed for a almost I 1 all animals and it has a nutritive ratio of near one to seven so it 11 la is a fattening grain tile the bloom of the buckwheat plant produces much nectar arid and thero there will usually be plenty of bees on hand during the blooming season season to gather tha ilia nectar in soma boma localities in tho the south buckwheat has largely superseded tho atha oat crop often it Is after wheat heat arid and thus the farmer la Is enabled to ito reap two crops froin a held field in one Boa season EoLl instead of allowing his stub ble to grow up to aeo weeds ds after harvest tile tho buckwheat crop la IB a great help in ridding tile the land of weeds as aa it Is A rnald grower and keeps tile tho back if tho the wheat stubble Is turned and sowed bowed buckwheat to and clover thure there Is riot not much chanco chance for the weeds to mature matuie seeds the tha soil should bo be plowed and lot let settle for two or three weeks before tho the buckwheat Is sown drill in from three pecks to a bushel of seed with from to pounds of good grade add acid phosphate per acie with a wheat drill it 11 Is a good plan to sow timothy wid and clover with the buckwheat put tho the timothy seed in the tha grass seeder box bo and nils inix the clover seed with the fertilizer tile tho clover seed Is thus drilled in rows and a little below the general surface of at the ground this protects tho ahe clover from frolin the tha winter freezing rind and the tha soil boll Is lit in bettor better condition to grow the gi glass ass than it it had licen been edwil on tho the wheat fields lit the earing |