. Elementary agriculture . Fig. 71. The cradle ivas a great improvement over the reap hook. Wheat in Rotation. Wheat should never be grown on the same fields year after year with no change of crop. It was grown in England fo-r many years to test this. When it was grown on the same field every year for twelve years the average crop was a little more than twelve bushels to the acre. When it was grown every fourth year, with three other crops between, the yield for each acre was twenty- eight bushels, or more than twice as much. Enemies of Wheat. Wheat seems to have more enemies than any other cr
. Elementary agriculture . Fig. 71. The cradle ivas a great improvement over the reap hook. Wheat in Rotation. Wheat should never be grown on the same fields year after year with no change of crop. It was grown in England fo-r many years to test this. When it was grown on the same field every year for twelve years the average crop was a little more than twelve bushels to the acre. When it was grown every fourth year, with three other crops between, the yield for each acre was twenty- eight bushels, or more than twice as much. Enemies of Wheat. Wheat seems to have more enemies than any other crop that the farmer raises. He never knows when he sows his fields what he shall reap or whether he shall reap at all. Very hot or cold weather may ruin the crop. Drouths may come and the plants die of thirst; or it may rain too much and drown the wheat. Storms of hail or wind
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