Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. disk which turns the soil shows only dimly beyond the frame. made of a double moldlioard plow or middle burster, and, in thesemi-arid Southwest, of a somewhat similar lister. Doubtlesssome of the labor-saving implements of the latter region, such aslisters and combined listers and planters fFig. 81) could beeffectively used on sandy soils in the South. Various forms of. Fig. 81. — Combined Lister and Cobn Pl.^nter. IIJG SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS harrows (Fig. 85) are used by the best farmers to pulverize theclods after pl
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. disk which turns the soil shows only dimly beyond the frame. made of a double moldlioard plow or middle burster, and, in thesemi-arid Southwest, of a somewhat similar lister. Doubtlesssome of the labor-saving implements of the latter region, such aslisters and combined listers and planters fFig. 81) could beeffectively used on sandy soils in the South. Various forms of. Fig. 81. — Combined Lister and Cobn Pl.^nter. IIJG SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS harrows (Fig. 85) are used by the best farmers to pulverize theclods after plowing. Partial preparation. — Two methods of preparatioa deservenotice here, both involving the performing of only a part of thework before planting. Much of the corn in the limestone prairieregion of Alabama and Mississippi is planted by making a list,or slight ridge, with two turn-plow furrows thrown on the seeddropped in the old water-furrow. Then the ridge is completed bythrowing two or more additional furrows of a turn-plow againstthis list. This method places the seed deeper in the groundthan is probably advisable in sueh stiff soils but gives opportunityfor a practice not yet in common use in that region, namely, thepartial pulling down of the ridges and the cultivation of the fieldby using the spike-tooth harrow before the corn comes up. Another system of partial or deferred preparation is practicedto some extent in the sandy
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