CONTENTS 



XV11 



PART III. CEREAL CROPS 



CHAPTER XIII 



CEREAL CULTIVATION EASTERN AREA .... 

 Description, 327. Soil Treatment: Soils, 328; To- 

 pography and drainage, 329 ; Soil erosion, 330 ; Soil 

 efficiency, 331 ; Soil amendments, 332 ; Liming, 333 ; 

 Sources of lime, 334 ; Applications of lime, 335 ; Ferti- 

 lizers, 336 ; Quantities of fertilizers required, 337 ; Time 

 and method of application, 338 ; Barnyard manure, 339 ; 

 Green manures, 340 ; Crops for green-manuring. 341 ; 

 Crop rotations, 342 ; Examples of rotations for the 

 North, 343 ; Rotations for the South, 344 ; The place of 

 each cereal in the rotation, 345; Cereals as nurse crops, 

 346 ; Cereals as cover -crops, 347 ; Cereal crop mixtures, 

 348 ; Experiments in Canada, 349. Growing the Crop : 

 Preparation of land for fall seeding, 350 ; Preparation of 

 land for spring seeding, 351 ; Preparation of seed, 352 ; 

 Time of fall seeding, 353 ; Time of spring seeding, 354 ; 

 The rate of seeding, 355 ; Depth of seeding, 356 ; Method 

 of seeding, 357 ; Cultivation of the crop, 358 ; Mowing 

 and pasturing, 369. Gathering the Crop : Time of har- 

 vesting, 360; Cutting the crop, 361; Shocking, 362; 

 Stacking, 363 ; Thrashing, 364. 



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303-338 



CHAPTER XIV 



CEREAL CULTIVATION GREAT PLAINS .... 



Soil Treatment : Soils, 365 ; Topography and drain- 

 age, 366 ; Soil amendments, 367 ; Barnyard manure, 

 368 ; Green-manures, 369 ; Results of experiments in 

 green-manuring, 370 ; Rotation of crops, 371 ; Results 

 of experiments, 372 ; Experiments in the western Great 

 Plains, 373; Cereals following a cultivated crop, 374; 

 A winter wheat following corn, 375 ; Summer tillage, 

 376 ; Storage of moisture in summer tillage, 377 ; Mois- 

 ture layers of semi-arid soils, 378 ; Comparative value of 



339-374 



