LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE 293 



Dry Farming Practices in North Dakota, W. R. 



Porter, Superintendent of Demonstration Farms 



for North Dakota. 

 Dry Farming Practices in Montana, Alfred Atkinson, 



President Montana State College of Agriculture. 

 Dry Farming in the Red River Valley, T. J. Harrison, 



Professor of Field Husbandry, Manitoba Agricul- 

 tural College, Winnipeg. 

 Dry Farming in Western Manitoba, W. C. McKillican, 



Superintendent Experimental Farm, Brandon, Man. 

 Dry Farming Practices in the Park Belt of Alberta, 



G. H. Hutton, Superintendent of Agriculture and 



Animal Industry, C. P. R., Calgary. 

 Summer Fallow In Southern Alberta, James Murray, 



Superintendent of Farms, Noble Foundation Ltd., 



Nobleford, Alberta. 



DRY FARMING IN THE GREAT PLAINS REGION 

 OF THE UNITED STATES 



A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM 



THE INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE OFFICE 



OF DRY LAND AGRICULTURE, UNITED STATES 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, INTO THE 



BEST METHOD OF MANAGING LAND IN 



THE GREAT PLAINS AREA.* 



BY E. C. CHILCOTT, AGRICULTURIST IN CHARGE. 



240. Summer Tillage. 



Spring Wheat : Summer tillage without crop has 

 given the highest average yields of any method under 



*The references in parenthesis refer to the U. S. D. A. Bulletins 

 in which may be found the evidence upon which the conclusions 

 herewith reproduced ar,e b;ised. 



