ABSTRACT
The cultivation of wheat is coeval with agriculture itself. Cultivation is supposed to moderate climate and there is a widely prevalent opinion that it also lessens frosts, humidity and rainfall. The soil in nature is more uniformly covered with vegetation throughout the year than it is under cultivation. Soil alterations of the highest importance are made by means of tillage, fertilizing and irrigation. The principal effect of cultivation on the growth of wheat is through its influence upon the physical condition of the soil, to which great importance is attached. There are three methods of sowing wheat: Broadcasting, which scatters the seed evenly over the ground; drilling, which places it in rows; and dibbling, in which a certain number of grains are dropped in each hill by means of a dibbling iron. As a rule, in most countries wheat receives no cultivation between sowing and harvesting.
