. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. PLOWING SOD 151 sometimes late before all the furrows are turned. The sowing of large areas of small grain also often prevents early plowing. Not many years since, it was a common idea to allow fields to grow up to weeds which were turned under, with the supposition that so many enemies bad been destroyed for the crop of the season. Think- ing farmers have found that it is the weed seeds which are turned up from the bottom of t
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. PLOWING SOD 151 sometimes late before all the furrows are turned. The sowing of large areas of small grain also often prevents early plowing. Not many years since, it was a common idea to allow fields to grow up to weeds which were turned under, with the supposition that so many enemies bad been destroyed for the crop of the season. Think- ing farmers have found that it is the weed seeds which are turned up from the bottom of the furrow slice which do the most damage. These should be brought to the surface early in the spring in order that they may be destroyed before planting time. Early plowing also admits of more thorough preparation of the seed bed just before GENERAL PURPOSE PLOW. Mold board is set at sufficient angle to allow the use of this plow in sod or stubble. Plowing Sod. The virgin sod land of the corn belt is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. A study of statistics of wild hay mead- ow shows a steady decrease in acreage. In such land the breaking plow is used to some extent in peeling back a shallow furrow in the fall, a deeper plowing to follow in the spring. Little alteration of structure can be brought about in turning the virgin prairie sod. First, the heavy draft due to the obstinate turf produced by the roots of prairie grasses, and second, the fact that considerable. 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 Bowman, Melville Le Roy, 1881-. Waterloo, Ia. , Sold by Waterloo publishing co.
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