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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ESSAY V. On Buck Wheat. Jjuck Wheat is an object of husbandry in a threefold light. It is propagated 1. As Grain; 2. As Manure; 3. As Green Fodder. However, the main intention of its propagation, whether as a crop, or as a melioration of the soil, or as a green provender for cattle, being the same, namely, the cleansing of foul land, it will be convenient to keep the three objects in nearly the same point of view. Soil. Buck Wheat is sown indiscriminately on all kinds of Soil, but poor land has the preference: indeed it is to this species of soil that it seems most especially adapted.?Hence it is that in the most sandy lands about Berlin, particularly between Werneiche and Welsicken- dorff, Lewenberg, Steinbeck, and Wollenberg, io far as to the forest about Freyenwalde, this grain is cultivated to the greatest advantage. Preparation of the Soil. The Land, as it is generally a foul stubble, ought to receive, as soon as the hurry of wheat- sowing is over, a good ploughing before the winter sets in, and to be left in the rough state through the winter, that it may partake of the benefits of snow and frost; care should be taken to make clean and deep furrows between the ridges, and, where necefsary, crofs furrows, with proper judgment, according to the situation of the land, in order to prevent the bad consequences of standing water. As soon as the very important businefs of sowing the spring crops is over, this land ought to be rolled and repeatedly well harrowed, in order to bring the rubbish to the top, and which when freed from the adhering soil, ought to be either burnt in gathered heaps upon the spot, or carried off from the land. Another ploughing and good harrowing will prepare the land for sowing. Time of Sowing. Buck Wheat should never be...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217481724 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217481728 |
| Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 224 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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