THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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chokes should be dropped in every second furrow close up to the free 

 edge of the sod. Two furrows should then be plowed and another row 

 of tubers planted. The rows would then be 28 inches apart, whi'ch would 

 give them plenty of room. The sod should be rolled so as to make , a 

 perfect sod mulch, and the pulverizer run over it once, which is all the 

 attention the crop will need, as there will be no weeds the first sea- 

 son. At least five acres of the very first plowing should be put into 

 artichokes, and the next ten acres should be put into potatoes. Under 

 suitable conditions the field will run from 50 to 150 bushels per acre. 



Forage Crops — Field Peas. 



"The next crop to put in is Canadian peas. For these the sod should 

 be single disked. Twenty-f?ve acres of peas sown broadcast and then 

 disked in for hay and then twenty-fiTe acres that are intended to thresh 

 should be drilled in with a Planet Junior seeder, drawn by a single horse. 



Root Crops — Beets. 



"Twenty-five acres should be put in roots, such as sugar beets, tur- 

 nips, carrots and rutabagas Five acres should next be put in soy beans. 

 Twenty-five acres can then be put in bald barley. Ten acres can be 

 put into macaroni' wheat, and last twenty acres should be seeded to 

 alfalfa. 



Alfalfa a Soil Preparation. 



"A good stand of alfalfa can be gotten on sod just as easy as 

 a stand of flax. The seed bed for this later should be thoroughly pre- 

 pared by disking and harrowing, and the seed drilled in and harrowed 

 at once, after which it must not be interfered with by harrowing, as the 

 plant is very tender and i.s easily broken off. It will not furnish much 

 forage the first year, and hogs and cattle and horses must be kept off 



Chicken Feeding. 



it. The chickens will, however, ' enjoy it and repay in abundant eggs. 

 The second season it will furnish a soil crop for cows and hogs during 

 the summer and hay for winter. 



Canadian Field Peas. 



"In this connection I want to say that the Canadian peas will fur- 

 nish all the soil crop needed the first year. The land that has been in 

 roots and peas can be back set in the fall and fai-med the second year 

 the same as if it had been summer fallowed. This would give nearly 



Crop Rotation. 



90 acres the second season for barley or macaroni wheat. The 30 acres 

 of barley and macaroni wheat land, which should be fail plowed, can be 

 used for roots, peas and tubers the second season. By growing a suc- 

 cession of intertilled crops the land can be cropped every year, or at 



Seeding Methods. 



least three crops out of four years can be grown successfully. After the 



