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WHEAT 



DEEP FURROWS WITH LISTER 



The best culture method to prevent soil drifting 

 on open, bare fields is to list the soil into deep 

 furrows and high ridges, preferably running east 

 and west, with the lister or double mold-board 

 plow. This condition offers almost complete 

 protection from soil drifting. The soil should be 

 listed when it is not too dry and loose. Even 

 when the soil is drifting on a field, it may be 

 stopped by listing, unless it is very loose and 

 sandy, by starting the lister on the side towards 

 the wind. In the fall of 1911, nearly 600 acres 

 were listed on the Hays experiment station farm, 

 including all corn and kafir stubble fields and all 

 land which was to be summer fallowed or planted 

 to intertilled crops in 1911. The results were so 

 favorable that the same plan was continued in 

 the fall of 1912. 



Fig. 16. Shallow furrows do not loosen the seed-bed too 

 deeply. 



