DRY-FARMING 



tion should begin a day or two after the 

 crop is planted and it is often harrowed 

 until the plants are six to eight inches 

 high in order to keep the soil from get- 

 ting hard and crusted. Buffum says: 

 "Under dry-farming, with proper tools, 

 one man can plant and tend 160 acres of 

 corn, or of sorghum. He must have 

 plenty of horses, gang-listers, large har- 

 rows and gang-weeders." It is impos- 

 sible to recommend any one variety of 

 corn that would prove adapted to the 

 whole of the West. But the dry-farmer 

 should try to obtain a variety which is 

 likely to suit his particular conditions 

 and grow his own seed-corn. By careful 

 selection for two or three years he can 

 easily increase his annual yield from 

 three to five bushels. 



The best corn-breeding work in the 

 United States has been done by the Illi- 

 nois Experiment Station ; and the farmer 

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