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The depth of seeding depends on conditions. If the seed
bed is properly prepared, one inch of moist soil on seed
resting on a firm seed bed would be suflicient. Seed may be
planted deeper in sandy soil than in clay soil. The season
should have something to do with the depth, the drier the .
season the deeper the planting may be. In acloddy seed bed _
it is necessary to get some of the seed too deep in order to
get all _deep enough. No definite rule for depth can be given,
but an average of one and one-half inches is not far from
right. In nosoil should the planting be more than three
inches or less than one inch.
Wheat should not be sown earlier in Kentucky than the
first of October, because if sown earlier it is liable to suffer
depredations of the Hessian fly. From the first to the tenth
of October seems to be the best time in the vicinity of Lex-
ington. O
3 Our experiments for two years on the rate of seeding _
seem to indicate that _6 pecks per acre produce the best
results. However, not enough work has been done that
much importance can be attached to the results. All the _
variety tests and general fields at the Station are seeded at
the rate of 6 pecks per acre. The following tables gives the
results with Harvest King and Miracle:
HARVEST KING 3 i`
AmO“ut_ Yield, Bu. per A.
Sown Per ;-——+———-7—————— 
’ _ Acre 1910 1911; Average
4pecks 28.0 _ 35.0t 3l?—_
' 5 pecks 25.3 35.0 30.1 ·
6 pecks ~ 35 1 34.7 34.9
7pecks 28.5 36.3 32.4
Specks 32.1 ' 25.0 28.5
MIRACLE
f*"‘°““t viem 1911
beggépef Bu. per A.
3 pecks » 32.7
4 pecks 34.7
5 pecks 35.3
6 pecks 36.7