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Show CROP PRODUCTION IN WESTERN WEST-ERN NEBRASKA; PRINCI- PLES OF CULTIVATION.- Experiment Station Bulletin No. 109. The Nebraska Experiment Station has just issued Bulletin No. 109, on Crop Production in Western Nebraska Neb-raska and Principles of Cultivation. This bulletin is a report of the Ex-pe Ex-pe ''mental Substation located at i-. rth Platte. Copies may be obtained ob-tained free of cost by residents of Nebraska on application to (he Agricultural Ag-ricultural Experiment Station, Lincoln, Lin-coln, Ncbr. Part I gives a short description of to the Substation farm and the soil, and a discussion of the climatic features based on tlie United Stales Weather Bureau reports. The precipitation of each month at North Platte is given, giv-en, also a diagram showing the normal nor-mal annual precipitation and the depasture de-pasture from the normal of each year. A map of the state shows ten rain-belts extending north and south across the state. The belt farthest east has an average precipitation of 32 or more inches, and the belt farthest farth-est to the southwest 16 or less inches. The grain crops recorded arc vfa-' ter wheat, spring wheat, oats, barley, spring emmer (speltz), w:nter cm-mcr, cm-mcr, and corn. The yields during the seasons of 1907 and 1908 for winter win-ter whcitf range from 20.85 to 66.9 bushels per aero; of spring wheat frm 22.6 to 40.5; of oats from 24 tO 82.3; of barley from ili.2 to 67.7 bushe's per acre, .Spring cn'imcr Qfl yielded from 25 to 50 bushels per M Sorghum, milo, Kafir, alfalfa and M bromc'gVass are considered ffi$ ninin M forage crops. The yields of these M are givQti. H Part II discusses the tillngc pract- M ices especially prominent in dry' land H farming. These are surface cultiva- H lion, summer tillage or clean sum- H mcr fallow, and subsurface packing. H By summer tillngc fully eight inches H of water which the plants can use H may be stored in the toil under nor- H mill, conditions. Summer tillage ns (H a menus oi preparing: the seed bed H for winter wheat is strongly recom- H inruded. H |