27/45 I thought spring wheat had to be sown in land that was ploughed the fall before. What's the explanation ?" "You can't explain nature, A.A.," said Percy Knapendyke. "Nature does so darned many unnatural things that you can't pin your faith to it at all. Of course, it was a pure experiment we made. We happened to have a lot of hard spring wheat, and this alluvial soil, deep and rich, was worth tackling. |