xiv. CONTENTS 



229. Corn Stubble Lessens Drifting.— 229a. Artificial 

 Protection. — 230. Miscellaneous Practices and Sugges- 

 tions.— 231. Conclusion. (Alkaline Soils).— 232. Why 

 Alkali is Harmful. — 233. The Reclamation of Alkali 

 Soils. — 234. The Use of Alkali-Resistant Crops. {Loose 

 Top Soils). — 235. How Loose Top Land is Broken. — 236. 

 The Crops Grown. — 237. Fallowing Loose Top Land 

 —238. The Rotation Used. {"Burnt Out" Soil).— 23y. 

 The Management of Burnt Out Soils. — {Poor Soils). — 

 239a. The Value of Manure.— 239b. The Place of Com- 

 mercial Fertilizers. {Cold Soils) 239c. Some Practices 



of Northern Agriculture. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Lessons from Experience ._... 292 



{Dry Farming in the Or eat Plains Region of the United 

 / States by E. C. Chilcott, United States Department of 

 Agriculture.). — 240. Summer Tillage. — 241. Corn or Sor- 

 ghums vs. The Fallow. — 242. When Disking May be 

 Substituted for Plowing. — 243. The Use of the Lister 

 in the Fall.— 244. How and When to Plow.— 245. The 

 Purpose of Plowing. — 245a. Green Manuring. — 246. 

 Destruction of Weeds. — 247. The Application of the Ca- 

 j)illary Theory to Dry Farming Practices. — 248. Farm 

 Organization and Crop Rotations. {Dry Farming Prac- 

 tices in Kansas, by L. E. Call, Professor of Agronomy, 

 Agricullural College, Manhattan, Kansas). — 249. The 



Place of Summer Tillage 250. Kansas Dry Farm Crops. 



— 251. Crops that Mature Ea^ly. — 252. The Amount of 

 Seed to Sow. {Dry Farming in Nebraska, by W. W. 

 Burr, Professor of Agronomy, Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Lincoln, Nebraska). — 253. Summer Tillage. — • 

 254. Crop Rotation.— 255. Crop Adaptation.— 256. Cul- 

 tural Practices. — 257. The Farming Unit. — ^258. Live 

 Stock. — 259. The Possibilities for Dry Farming. {Dry 

 Farming Practices in South Dakota, by Manley Champ- 

 lin, formerly Associate Professor of Agronomy, Brook- 

 ings, S.D.). — 260. Summerf allowing. — 261. Crop Rota- 

 tion. — 262. Drought-Resistant Crops. — {Dry Farming 

 Practices in North Dakota, by W. R. Porter, Superinten- 

 dent of Demonstration Farms for North Dakota). — 263. 

 Summer Tillage.^ — 264. Stubble Land. — 265. Grass Land. 

 —266. Rotations.— 267. The Best Crops.— 268. The Rate 



of Seeding.— 269. Weeds.— 270. Soil Drifting {Dry 



Farming in Montana, by Alfred Atkinson, President Mon- 

 tana State College of Agriculture, formerly Professor of 

 Agronomy).— 271. Limited Supply of Moisiture, — 272. 



