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Show DRY FARMING IN A NUTSHELL Kansas Farmer Raises One Crop With Rainfall of Two Season Harrow Har-row After Each Rain. My system of dry farming Is to raise one crop with the rainfall of two seasons. I have 80 acres under cultivation. cul-tivation. I divide these Into two 40-acre 40-acre tracts I put a crop on one tract In 1912 and the other I disk up ths same spring, after a rain and barrow, writes J. Neugbauer In the Farmers' Mail and Hreeze. As soon as time permits I plow this second tract as deep as possible and harrow after each rain to keep the weeds from growing through the summer, and if harrowing will not keep them down, the ground Is double-disked. Tbe bar rowing and disking will keep ft shallow shal-low mulch on the surface that will hold all the moisture In tbe soil tbat rails In 1912. In tbe spring. of 1913 you will bave from 18 Inches to four feet of wet ground under the mulch on which to grow a crop. 1 plant 20 acres of this to small grain and the remainder to corn and potatoes. barrow the small grains after every rain until they are too big; then I take a cultivator culti-vator with four small shovels on a side and cultivate shallow, so as to keep a three Inch loose mulch on top. Try this method and you will be surprised to see the crops you will raise on this second 40-acre tract If you don't wisb to experiment wltb as much as 40 acres, try 10 or 20 acres. In this way we can raise good crops In spite of dry spells, and If done right It will mean fewer acres to farm and at the same time better crops. |
