Sorghums : sure money crops . doubted the advisability of stirring the soil morethan is needed to cover the seed planted. It seems con-sistent to here insert a somewhat lengthy statement re-garding soil blowing prevention methods, by E. C. John-son, leader of farm demonstration work in Kansas: The Kansas Agricultural College for some years hasadvocated certain fundamental methods for the preven-tion of blowing. The more important of these are thepreservation of humus by returning straw and manure tothe land, using it as a surface dressing on wheat fieldsduring the winter; increasing the humus
Sorghums : sure money crops . doubted the advisability of stirring the soil morethan is needed to cover the seed planted. It seems con-sistent to here insert a somewhat lengthy statement re-garding soil blowing prevention methods, by E. C. John-son, leader of farm demonstration work in Kansas: The Kansas Agricultural College for some years hasadvocated certain fundamental methods for the preven-tion of blowing. The more important of these are thepreservation of humus by returning straw and manure tothe land, using it as a surface dressing on wheat fieldsduring the winter; increasing the humus through the 170 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS use of green manure crops such as rye preceding thesummer fallow; cultivating summer fallow with shovelcultivators such as the ordinary 6 to 12-shovel corn culti-vator, or the beet cultivator, or with the alfalfa renova-tor or other implements which leave the field in a roughinstead of pulverized condition; cultivating only whenthe ground contains moisture, but is not wet, and giving. Fully Matured Heads of Blacklmlled Kafir of 191,3 Crop Grown inCentral Kansas.—The Seed Was Planted Early and Was ofEarly Maturing Strain—Two Reasons Why it Made a Crop. only sufficient cultivation to keep down weeds and pre-serve a coarse soil mulch; summer fallowing with thelister instead of plow and disk, or summer fallowing byplowing twice, once in the spring and once during thesummer, leaving the field in the rough; using inter-tilledcrops such as kafir, milo, other sorghums and corn, inplace of so much wheat, and preparing the land by listingeast and west, or at right angles to the prevailing wind,instead of by plowing. These methods have been usedefficiently in preventing blowing at the Agricultural Ex- GRAIN SORGHUM FARMING 171 periment Stations at Hays, Garden City, Dodge City,Tribune and Ogallah, for several years. The district demonstration agents in Western Kan-sas, thoroughly acquainted with these recommendationsand methods, are emphasizi
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