Show ro RAISE BUCKWHEAT crop fills best in a rather cool season makes good feed for almost all animals and has lelve ratio of near one to seven helps greatly in ridding of weeds by A J LEGO buckwheat la a crop that can be sown any time after the danger from frost Is over up to about the first of august with reasonable success the buckwheat usually fills best in a rather cool season and in localities where midsummer Is very hot it Is best to defer sowing the buckwheat until late in the season so as to give from 60 to 70 days tor it to mature a crop before frost sixty days Is sufficient tor a crop to make itself usually the grata makes a good feed for 91 most all animals and it has a ratib of near one to seven so it is a fattening grain the bloom of the buckwheat plant produces much nectar and there usually be plenty of bees on hand during the blooming season to gather the nectar in some localities in the south buckwheat has largely superseded the oat crop often it Is sown after wheat and thus the farmer is enabled to reap two crops from a field in one season instead of allowing hla stub ble to grow up to weeds after harvest the buckwheat crop Is a great help in ridding the land of weeds as it la rapid grower and the meeds back if the wheat stubble Is turned and bowed sowed to buckwheat and clover there is not much chance tor the weeds to mature seeds the soil should be plowed and let settle for two or three weeks before the buckwheat Is sown drill in from three pecks to a bushel of seed with from to pounds of good grade acid phosphate fsr acre with a wheat drill it Is a good plan to sow timothy and clover with the buckwheat put the timothy seed in the grass seeder box and mix the clover alth the fertilizer the clover seed is thus drilled in rows and a little below the general surface of the ground this protects the clover from the winter freezing and the soil is in better condition to grow he grass than it it had been sown on the wheat fields 41 the spring |