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DRY-FARMING 



made and tried out on the famous dry-farm district 

 at Nephi, Utah, and with the greatest success. Hun- 

 ter reports a similar implement in common use on the 

 dry-farms of the Columbia Basin. Spring tooth har- 

 rows are also used in a small way on the drj'-farms. 



Fig. S2. Riding <;ultivator. 



They have no si:)ecial ad\-antage over the smoothing 

 harrow or the disk harr(jw, except in places where the 

 attempt is made to cultivate the soil between the 

 rows of wheat. The curved knife tooth harrow is 

 scarcely ever used on drj^-farms. It has some value 

 as a pulverizer, but does not seem to have any real 

 advantage over the ordinary disk harrow. 



Cultivators for stirring the land on which crops are 

 growing are not used extensivel}' on dry-farms. Usu- 

 ally the spring tooth harnnv is employed for this 

 work. In chy-farm sections, where corn is grown, 

 the cultivator is frequently used throughout the 



