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Show I BUCKWHEAT FINE ' I FOR POOR SOILS I Profitable Yield May Be Secured I Where Wheat, or Even Rye, I Cannot Be Grown. fkEXCELLEIff AS COVER CfinP Can Be Grown on Land Where Spring-Sown Spring-Sown Crops, Such as Corn, Have Tailed to Make a Stand Many Other Utes. (Prepared by the United Stntos Dsjmrt-ment Dsjmrt-ment of AKrlculture.) Buckwheat Ih in general the host I grain crop for poor, thin Wind. Its nut jural nntl favorite environment Is "hack n the hlllH." On IntuI where wlient -or even rye cannot he Brown with prollt buckwheat Is often nhle to produce n fcrontnble yield. The cllmntlc condl- j tlone, however, nniHt bo fnvorable. On neld soils, which lire finite com. mon in the northern states, buckwheat fjoea well. It does not require large fiuppllesof lime In the soil, although lime Is taken up largely by the plant. Good Summer Cover Crop. Low-grade fertilizers may be used to advantage In tlic growing of buck- wheat, as It can make use of relatively Insoluble materials to better advantage advan-tage than the other grain crops. It rnny be used to render available Insoluble In-soluble phosphates, like rock phosphate, phos-phate, as thee are taken up by the plant in larger quantities than by other small grains. To obtain the greatest benefit from such applications to follow crops, the huckwlient should bo grown as a Rummer cover crop to be plowed under as green manure In preparation for fall seeding. Buckwheat serves to make even very hard land mellow and friable. Consequently Conse-quently it is a good crop to use In preparation for such crops ns potatoes. Ah it has n short growing period, buckwheat can be grown on land where pprlng-sown crops, such as corn, have failed to make a stand. It can also be used where the land cannot be worked iTntll Inte, or where other crops have been drowned out by late spring floods. Enlarge Farm Activities. Buckwheat can be used to enlarge farm activities. After other crops' that must lie sown early are nil In there is often time to prepare land and sow buckwheat. On nccount of the short growing season it mny bo sown later than nny other grain crop. Where it is so used It often may be advisable to row it even on rich land which otherwise other-wise could be used more profitably for other crops. Buckwheat Is n sultablo crop for growing on new ground. Land Just cleared of timber or drained marsh land containing much decaying vegetable vege-table mntt;r will produce good yields of this grain. Farmers' Bulletin No. 1002 contains full Information on this crop. Copies may be bad free on application to the department of agriculture, Washington, Washing-ton, D. 0. |