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Manuring Wheat

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
August
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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best whcat regions, unless the soil is already (juite ricb, the uiost effoctive use of manuro is a topdressing after the land bas boen plowed, It has oftea incrcasod tho orop oight or ten bushels per acre, and sometimos given a good yield of Uio Mediterranean variet3' wbero the winter has nearly destroyed undrossod fields. The mauure for this purpoBO should be lino or well rotted and well broken by harrowing. To prevent tho iuanuro wagons froin uartleniDg tho plowed soil, it ib a gonj way to plow and then dreas a strip on tho further side of the tiold, and theu ropeat the prooess on successive strips till tho whole is completed. If the soil a very dry, bring the moist portions uj) by Jeep plowing, and drill in imir.ediutclv. The Now Haven Register says tftat on the recont fust dtiy, íi popular clerpryrr.iin in hi iravcr, soid : "(Jivo to Fretitlent Lincoln all thu ability coni:stont -i!h TKy pi'.rposüs, for vu knoiv that ho noeds t."

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Old News
Michigan Argus