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DRY LAND FARMING 



moisture is reasonably plentiful, sod land may be plowed 

 just before planting the corn, and the results may be 

 entirely satisfactory, as the grass on land plowed at such 

 a time aids in the quick decay of the sod. 



The homesteader may, and does, grow corn by break- 

 ing sod land shallow and strewing the seed by hand in, 

 say, every third furrow. Reasonably good crops have 



DRY LAND FODDER CORN, GROWN NEAR BROADVIEW, MONTANA. 

 Courtesy Great Northern Railway Co. 



been grown thus and without any further labor than that 

 of dropping the seed, which soon produces growth that 

 comes up through the overturned sod. The best crops of 

 corn cannot be obtained from planting it thus, nor does 

 it put the land in the best condition for the crop that will 

 follow. When corn is planted thus, every care should 

 be taken to disc the ground and smooth the surface after 

 the corn has been planted, and before the crop has 



