一山东省有些地区,羣众有“锄麦锄到谷雨节”的经验,也就是说,麦田最后一次中耕是在孕穗、挑旗期,在谷雨前后。此后,一般就不再锄地了。但是在有的情况下,例如为了有利于麦田串种玉米,或者是旱地为了保墒,卽使在小麦抽穗以后,仍有继续锄地的。为了摸清这些经验的实质,以便在学习羣众经验基础上,能灵活地运用这些经验,我们曾在1962— In some areas of Shandong Province, the masses have the experience of hoeing wheat hoe to Guyu Festival. In other words, the last cultivating in wheat fields was in the booting and the flag-cutting period, before and after Guyu. Since then, generally no longer hoe. However, in some cases, for example, in order to favor the planting of corn in the wheat fields, or in order to maintain soil moisture in the dry land, the wheat hoeing will continue to be hoeing. In order to find out the essence of these experiences so that they can flexibly apply these experiences on the basis of learning from the experience of the masses,