. Dry land farming. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. SOWING AND PLANTING IN DRY AREAS 177 der dry farming conditions. To say that it has no place, as some have said, is putting the matter strongly. There may be certain soil conditions at the time for sowing which would preclude the use of the drill, but would not at the same time forbid sowing on the broadcast plan. Such an occasion might arise from a soil so moist near the surface as to make it impossible to do good work with the drill. So much superior is drill sowing over broadcasting, that the aim should be to sow even such small seeds as
. Dry land farming. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. SOWING AND PLANTING IN DRY AREAS 177 der dry farming conditions. To say that it has no place, as some have said, is putting the matter strongly. There may be certain soil conditions at the time for sowing which would preclude the use of the drill, but would not at the same time forbid sowing on the broadcast plan. Such an occasion might arise from a soil so moist near the surface as to make it impossible to do good work with the drill. So much superior is drill sowing over broadcasting, that the aim should be to sow even such small seeds as alfalfa and grasses with some form of THE DISC PRESS DRILL. Courtesy American Seeding Machine Co., Springfield, Ohio. The amounts of seeds to sow.—In dry areas the amount of seed that ought to be sown is worthy of the most careful study, because of the influence which the amount of seed sow^n exerts upon the crop 'yields. It would seem correct to say that in semi-arid areas the less the amount of the precipitation the less the amount of the seed that is called for. This conclusion is based upon the influence which the moisture supply present in the soil exerts on plant development. When the number of plants growing on a certain area is in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaw, Thomas, 1843- [from old catalog]. St. Paul, Minn. , The Pioneer company
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