. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ached us in noticeable numbers. {Country Times, May ) 5067. The culture of summer wheat differs from that of winter or spring-sown winterwheat, in its requiring a more minutely pulverised and rather richer soil. It need notbe sown sooner than April, and it advances so rapidly to maturity that it hardly affordstime for hoeing (if sown in rows
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ached us in noticeable numbers. {Country Times, May ) 5067. The culture of summer wheat differs from that of winter or spring-sown winterwheat, in its requiring a more minutely pulverised and rather richer soil. It need notbe sown sooner than April, and it advances so rapidly to maturity that it hardly affordstime for hoeing (if sown in rows), or harrowing and rolling. When grass or clover seedsare sown on the same ground, they are sown immediately after the wheat, and harrowedin with a light harrow or rolled in. In this respect, and indeed in all others, the prepa-ration of the soil and sowing of this grain are the same as for barley. 5068. The produce of summer wheat, both in grain and straw, is considerably less thanthat of winter wheat: the straw is only fit for litter or inferior fodder; the flour producedby the grain is rather coarser and darker than that of common wheat. Of course thissort of wheat cannot, as already observed, be recommended for general culture. 725 . w. I Sect. II. Bye. — Secdle ceredle L.; Triandria Digynia L., and Graminea J. Seigle,Fr.; Rogon, Ger. ; Segale, Ital. ; and Centeno, Span, (Jig. 725.) 5069. Rye, according to some, is a native of Crete; but it is very doubtful whetherany country can be now ascertained to be its native soil. It hasbeen cultivated from time immemorial, and is considered as comingnearer in its properties to wheat than any other grain. It is morecommon than wheat on most parts of the continent, being a morecertain crop, and one which requires less culture and manure. It isthe bread corn of Germany and Russia. In Britain it is now verylittle grown, being no longer a bread corn, and therefore of lessvalue to the farmer than barley, oats, or peas. Many consider i
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