. Dry-farming : a system of agriculture for countries under a low rainfall . Dry farming. 314 DRY-FARMING made and tried out on the famous dry-farm district at Nephi, Utah, and with the greatest success. Hun- ter reports a similar implement in common use on the dry-farms of the Columbia Basin. Spring tooth har- rows are also used in a small way on the drj' Fig. S2. Riding <;ultivator. They have no si:)ecial ad\-antage over the smoothing harrow or the disk harr(jw, except in places where the attempt is made to cultivate the soil between the rows of wheat. The curved knife tooth harro
. Dry-farming : a system of agriculture for countries under a low rainfall . Dry farming. 314 DRY-FARMING made and tried out on the famous dry-farm district at Nephi, Utah, and with the greatest success. Hun- ter reports a similar implement in common use on the dry-farms of the Columbia Basin. Spring tooth har- rows are also used in a small way on the drj' Fig. S2. Riding <;ultivator. They have no si:)ecial ad\-antage over the smoothing harrow or the disk harr(jw, except in places where the attempt is made to cultivate the soil between the rows of wheat. The curved knife tooth harrow is scarcely ever used on drj^-farms. It has some value as a pulverizer, but does not seem to have any real advantage over the ordinary disk harrow. Cultivators for stirring the land on which crops are growing are not used extensivel}' on dry-farms. Usu- ally the spring tooth harnnv is employed for this work. In chy-farm sections, where corn is grown, the cultivator is frequently used throughout the. 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 Widtsoe, John Andreas, 1872-1952. New York : The Macmillan Company
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