Stations that a good double disking of the soil is just as effi- 

 cient as plowing and much easier and quicker so that our 

 recommendations for the preparation of oat land is to double- 

 disk the soil, then harrow down and drill the seed in. Such a 

 preparation would, if consistently followed, give excellent 

 results. 



From the foregoing, it can be easily seen, that the disk 

 harrow plays a very important part in modern farm opera- 

 tions. In my estimation no farmer can do without one as they 

 insure thorough preparation of the soil and decrease the cost 

 of crop production. 



The Most Useful Farm Implement 



By J. N. HARPER 



Director, South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 



I consider the disk harrow the most useful farm implement 

 the farmers of this region can own. It is invaluable in putting 

 land in shape in early spring after the land has been thoroughly 

 plowed with a disk plow during the previous fall. Much time 

 and labor is saved if the disk harrow is run over corn land 

 previous to the laying off of the land just before planting. I 

 have also found the disk harrow valuable in listing land for 

 cotton. One time to the row is sufficient to make a bed on 

 which the bottom can be planted, whereas by the old method 

 it takes four to five furrows with Dixie plow to do the same work. 



