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SECTION IV. 



Different methods of direct sowing. 



The ground may be sown without any preliminary cultivation, 

 or it may be subjected to a certain amount of previous tilth. In 

 the former case the seed may be broadcast more or less uniformly 

 over the entire area to be stocked or it may be dropped into small 

 holes or cuts (notches) made in the ground. In the other case, 

 the entire area may be cultivated and sown, or the operation may 

 be partial and restricted to certain definite portions. When the 

 sowing is only partial, the cultivated portions may form more or 

 less continuous parallel lines or consist only of detached spots of 

 very limited extent. Then again, the continuous lines may be on 

 the same level as the rest of the ground (strips), or hollowed out 

 in the form of trenches or furrows, or raised into ridges, or combine 

 the form of any two or all three of these methods ; while the de- 

 tached cultivated spots, according to their size and form, may be 

 patches or plots, pits, hollows or holes, mounds, or combinations of 

 patches, plots, pits or hollows, and mounds. These various methods 

 may be exhibited synoptically thus: 



DIRECT SOWING 



Without tilth With tilth 



S ; - 

 p 



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