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Fig. 11. Disk lister cultivator used for filling listed furrows. 



Once over with the disk cultivator is sufficient 

 to fill the furrows, the further work necessary to 

 prepare the seed bed being given with a common 

 harrow. 



In preparing the ground for spring wheat, the 

 listing should be done soon after harvest and the 

 soil worked back into the furrows again before 

 the ground freezes. Thus it may settle and firm 

 up during the winter, when by harrowing or 

 shallow disking in the spring the seed bed may be 

 put into favorable condition for planting. On 

 land which is inclined to drift in heavy winds it 

 is better not to level the ridges until spring as 

 the furrowed soil will resist blowing. 



