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harvester and a tandem or double disk harrow, 

 double disking the stubble as fast as the crop is 

 cut, mixing the thick heavy stubble into the top 

 three inches of soil. Explanation of the value 

 will be gone into under the heading of "Disking 

 After the Harvest." 



Cut No. 33, another full page color cut, shows 

 two fields of wheat grown by August Desens, on 

 the high divide 1J miles north of Stratton, Ne- 

 braska in the very hot, dry year of 1913. This, 

 like No. 30, shows two fields of winter wheat. 

 The rear field here was summer tilled in 1912, 

 and seeded in early September, and produced in 

 1913, 33 bushels of 62 pound wheat per acre, 

 while the front field was in wheat in 1912, refitted 

 and again sown at the same time the summer 

 tilled field was. This field started off well in the 

 spring, but like many surrounding fields ran out 

 of moisture during the hot weather without rain 

 and dried up, never even heading as can be 

 clearly seen in the cut. 



The gentleman's feet standing in the front field 

 can be plainly seen, while the man in the back, 

 or summer tilled field, stands in thick rank wheat 

 up to his hips. Such evidence as to the correctness 

 of certain methods of tillage cannot be contradict- 

 ed. Numerous fields of wheat in this locality 

 were not worth cutting, due to the excessive pro- 

 longed heat without rain during June and early 

 July. 



Cut No. 84 is a most exceedingly interesting 

 illustration of what the right kind of tillage will 

 do in the growing of a good crop with very small 



