Show PRACTICE OF DRY FARMING consists of first stirring soil to good depth then packing and providing mulch in answer to a query as to the mean ing of the term dry farming hoard s dairyman makes the follow ing reply the term dry farming applies to a system first developed by bj 7 H W campbell on the semi arid and soils ol 01 western nf nebraska braska where the rainfall was about fifteen inches per annum and lightest in the late fall winter and spring briefly stated it consists in first stirring the soil to a good depth then packing the sub surface soil with a tool invented for that purpose tol fol I 1 lowed by keeping the top soil loose to check evaporation the grain Is sown in drills twentysix twenty six inches apart A surface agitator or cultivator follows between the drills stirring the surface between the rows the same as we do with corn the following yields are reported in the american cyclopedia of agrical ture page in an experiment at lisbon north dakota the yield of wheat by the in ter cultural method from 20 pounds of seed per acre was 27 bushels from one halt half bushel of barley per acre bushels from three fourths of a bushel of oats 82 bushels these fields U were ere cultivated six or eight time depending on conditions by th ehfe or binary methods the same year bushels of wheat seed is commonly sown per acre yielded 3 to 7 bushels 2 bushels of barley seed yielded 6 to 15 bushels and 2 bushels of oat seed yielded 0 to 20 bushels per acre |