WHEN DISKING IS BETTER THAN PLOWING 



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and where they seldom become hard and compact. This may seem 

 a careless way of farming to those unfamiliar with the conditions 

 encouraging this practice, yet it proves economical and gives 

 good returns. Disking the corn or potato land to a shallow 

 depth before broadcasting is the common practice with many 

 farmers, and this is considered better than when no disking is 

 done before seeding. / ^^ 



Fig. 102.— Lister. 



When Disking is Better Than Plowing. — When oats are to be 

 sown on potato or corn land in a high state of fertility, disking 

 proves better than plowing. Many farmers have found that 

 they can also grow better barley when the land is disked instead 

 of plowed. This is especially true on black, crummy prairie soils, 

 and crummy silt loams on many dairy farms. It is the experience 

 of many dairy farmers that oats and even barley stand up better 

 when such lands are not plowed. 



Listing is primarily a method of planting corn in dry sections; 



