. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. WHEN DISKING IS BETTER THAN PLOWING 159 and where they seldom become hard and compact. This may seem a careless way of farming to those unfamiliar with the conditions encouraging this practice, yet it proves economical and gives good returns. Disking the corn or potato land to a shallow depth before broadcasting is the common practice with many farmers, and this is considered better than when no disking is done before seeding. / ^^. Fig. 102.—Lister. When Disking is Better Than Plowing.—Wh
. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. WHEN DISKING IS BETTER THAN PLOWING 159 and where they seldom become hard and compact. This may seem a careless way of farming to those unfamiliar with the conditions encouraging this practice, yet it proves economical and gives good returns. Disking the corn or potato land to a shallow depth before broadcasting is the common practice with many farmers, and this is considered better than when no disking is done before seeding. / ^^. Fig. 102.—Lister. When Disking is Better Than Plowing.—When oats are to be sown on potato or corn land in a high state of fertility, disking proves better than plowing. Many farmers have found that they can also grow better barley when the land is disked instead of plowed. This is especially true on black, crummy prairie soils, and crummy silt loams on many dairy farms. It is the experience of many dairy farmers that oats and even barley stand up better when such lands are not plowed. Listing is primarily a method of planting corn in dry sections;. 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 Weir, Wilbert Walter, 1882-. Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company
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