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cannot fail to make our western farming more 

 successful and profitable. 



cux,TivATiNa The principal implements for cultivating 

 grain are the drag harrow and the weeder. 

 When the grain is too high to be harrowed a 

 weeder may then be used to much advantage. 

 Sometimes the weeder may do the best work 

 from the first. To do the work properly the 

 harrow teeth must be kept sharp and slanted. 

 Good work cannot be done with dull or stubbed- 

 off teeth. Always harrow cross-ways of the drill 

 marks if possible to do so. It often looks as 

 though great injury were being done by harrow- 

 ing small grain, but it never fails to turn out 

 beneficially. Winter wheat should be harrowed 

 one or more times in the spring and going over 

 twice may be necessary to do effective work. 

 Small grains or even corn may be harrowed until 

 six or seven inches high. The harrow is a good 

 thing to run over the potato field or field peas 

 just when they are coming up. 



HARVESTING Of course the harvest may be carried on by 



ordinary methods, but the soil should not be neg- 

 lected at this time. Where our rainfall comes 

 during the summer, discing the stubble after har- 

 vesting grain is important. After harvesting 

 potatoes or sugar beets the drag harrow should 

 be used to break up the lumps and re-establish 

 the soil mulch. Barley or other grains that can 



