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FACING PAGE 



59. Young Corn in Need of a Cultivation 158 



60. A Cultivator that is Really a Plow 159 



61. Cultivating at a Disadvantage 159 



62. Rolling Wheat Seeding in a Dry September .... 182 



63. A Cloddy Soil that would be Benefited by Rolling . . 183 



64. A Four-section Iron Roller Weighted 183 



65. A Three-section Iron Roller 186 



66. A Home-made, Three-section Wooden Roller . . . 186 



67. A Serviceable Home-made Flanker or "Float" . . . 187 



68. Corn "Drowned Out" 198 



69. Meadow on which Less Water Has Been Standing . . 198 



70. A Soil Well-drained Naturally by a Gravelly Subsoil . 199 



71. Surface Drainage by "Plowing into Lands" .... 199 



72. Draining Wet Lands with an Open Ditch 202 



73. An Open Ditch with Grassed Sides on an Easy Slope, so 



They do not Wash ....'. 202 



74. Laying a Tile Drain 203 



75. A Tile that Has Been Clogged by Tree Roots ... 203 



76. The Plow may be Used to Facilitate the Removal of 



Surface Soil for Drains 228 



77. Outlet of a Tile Drain Clogged by Soil so that the Drain 



Does not Work. 228 



78. A Typical Eastern Swamp that can Easily be made 



into Farming Land 229 



79. Map of the Mean Annual Rainfall in Different Parts of 



the United States (After Newell) 236 



80. Irrigating Olives, Fresno, California, by Check System . 237 



81. The Intake of the Sunnyside Canal, Yakima Valley, 



Washington 237 



82. Irrigating a Garden from a Hydrant in a Semi-arid 



Region (Pullman, Wash.) 274 



83. Irrigating Strawberries by Pumping from Cache Creek, 



California 274 



84. Irrigating Alfalfa by Furrow System, Yakima Valley, 



Washington 275 



85. A Barnyard in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia . . . 286 



86. The Ohio River Flooding its Meadows 287 



87. Pasturing with Cattle 287 



88. Sheep at Pasture 287 



89. Harrowing the Summer Fallow 320 



90. .Hay that Will Soon be Baled and Shipped to the City . 321 



91. Clover Following Wheat One of the Commonest Ro- 



tations in this Country 321 



