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followed by thorough disking may give good re- 

 sults. 



Writing on this subject Prof. Angus Mackay, 

 superintendent of the experimental farm for 

 southern Saskatchewan, discusses "breaking and 

 backsetting" as follows: 



"Breaking and backsetting means the plowing 

 of the prairie sod as shallow as possible before the 

 June or early July rains are over, and in August 

 or September, when the sod will have become 

 thoroughly rotted by the rains and hot sun, 

 plowing two or three inches deeper in the same 

 direction and then harrowing to make a fine and 

 firm seed bed. From land prepared in this way 

 two good crops of wheat may be expected. The 

 first crop will be heavy and the stubble, if cut 

 high at harvest time, will retain sufficient snow to 





Fig. 35. A first-class job of breaking. 



