DRY-FARMING 



team of horses with an ordinaiy mower 

 attachment will cut ten acres of peas in 

 a day. 



Leguminous Crops. 



Those crops which belong to the pea 

 or pod-forming family are of special 

 value to the dry-farmer, for, in the first 

 place, they may be grown as forage 

 plants or, secondly, utilized for green 

 manuring. Now the plowing under of 

 green crops is one of the oldest methods 

 of maintaining the fertility of the soil. 

 But it was only within the last twenty- 

 five years that the great value of the 

 legume was made clear. Most farmers 

 are aware that the roots of leguminous 

 plants possess small warts, usually 

 termed nodules or tubercles, by means of 

 which they can make use of the free 

 nitrogen of the air. Further, these 

 nodules are caused by certain germs 

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