Seed Sowing.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 2, 14 June 1883, Page 3

Seed Sowing.

If in sowing seeds in the open <rround, we could control every condition, we might raise our crops with a small share of the seed we actually use. In order to bring the soil in close contact witli the soed, and to prevent injury to the germinating plants by the contact of dry atmosphere, we compact the soil by the use of a roller, by patting it with the back of the spade, or sometimes by treadingupou it. The vout g plants, in reaching the surface, have not only to conto, ml with the weight of the soil over them, but they havp. to break through this artificially formed crust. The force exorcised by a single ulantlet is slight, but multiplied many times, it is sufficient to overcome the obstacle — the earth above it, and united effort, so to speak, the multitude of feeds do what a few would perish in

;.tremptin<r. In carrot seod, for example, we use pprhaps a dozen seeds to train force sufficient to break the ground and allow h single one to grow and come to maturity. — Exchange.