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DRY FARMING 



Forage crops for summer pasture — Sweet clover. 

 Forage crops for fall pasture — Rape and winter rye. 

 Forage crops for winter fodder — Corn and the straw 



of cereals. 

 Forage crops for succulent winter feed — Corn, oats 



and sunflowers. 

 59. Durum Wheat. — This is a bearded wheat, long and 

 stiff in the straw, non-;ihattering and rust and drought 





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Fig. 33. — Flax in Bloom in Southern Saskatchewan. 

 As a first crop after breaking, particularly on heavy land, flax is very 



popular. 



resistant. It is, however, a macaroni wheat and has not 

 as yet been grown to any extent as the market demand 

 has been for the common wheats. It has done exception- 

 ally well in western North and South Dakota and eastern 

 Montana and has averaged slightly more per acre than 

 the common spring wheat at Saskatoon. The price is 

 generally slightly lower than for hard red spring. This 

 wheat is deserving of careful trial. Kubanka is at pres- 

 ent the best variety of this class of wheat. 



