. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 220 BUCKWHEAT BUCKWHEAT A> work be done on a dry, airy day. so that the jrrain would shell ;5ily. If threshed by machinery neither crop nor day need be so dry, and it is usual to remove from the thresher the spiked con- cave and put in its place a smooth one, or a suit- able piece of hardwootl plank. This is to avoid cracking: the grrain and unnecessarily breaking the
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 220 BUCKWHEAT BUCKWHEAT A> work be done on a dry, airy day. so that the jrrain would shell ;5ily. If threshed by machinery neither crop nor day need be so dry, and it is usual to remove from the thresher the spiked con- cave and put in its place a smooth one, or a suit- able piece of hardwootl plank. This is to avoid cracking: the grrain and unnecessarily breaking the straw. The pedicels bearing the seeds are slender, and these as well as the straw, when drv, are. .Fig. 314. Buckwheat in the shock. brittle, so that buckwheat threshes much easier than the cereals. Place in the roto/fon.—Buckwheat generally has no definite place assigned it in the rotation of crops. This is chiefly due to its being resorted to as a substitute for meadow or spring-planted crops that have failed. The poorer lands and the left- over fields are usually sown to buckwheat. While buckwheat seems not to be materially affected by the crop that precedes it, on the other hand it is reported unfavorably to affect certain crops when they follow it. Oats and corn are said by many to be less successful after buckwheat than after other crops. That this is so has not been estab- lished by any experiment station. Buckwheat leaves the soil in a peculiarly mellow, ashy con- dition. In the case of rather heavy soils on which it is desired to grow potatoes this is a decided benefit, and in some localities the practice of pre- ceding potatoes by buckwheat, for the purpose of securing this effect, has become common. The following rotation is sometimes recommended for such soils : clover, buckwheat, potatoes, oats or wheat with clover-seeding. The first crop of clover is harvested early and the land immediately plowed and sown to buckwheat as a preparation for potatoes. Varieties. T
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