44 
'BTJLLETIX 320, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTURE. 
by corn. Oats and wheat are not usually grown on the same land for 
two succeeding years, but oats are often grown one year and wheat 
the next. Some fruit and truck is grown. Few cattle or hogs are 
kept, and the principal farm incomes are from cotton and grain. 
Alfalfa is grown on some of the bottom lands and does well except in 
dry seasons. 
Table XXI. — Tillage practices with corn in Rockwall and Grayson Counties, 
Tex., showing depth of plowing, implements used in order of use, number of 
times each is used, and normal yield of the crop. 
[In columns 4 to 7 and 9 to 11 the figures show the order in which the implement was used on the several 
farms; as, 1 = first working or cultivation, 2 = second working or cultivation, etc.] 
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a Lister and planter combined. 
The tillage practices with corn are rather unusual. A large part 
of the land is broken in the fall with a 4-horse lister, or middle 
buster, which leayes the land in ridges the width apart the corn rows 
are to be. This implement (fig. 4) plows out a furrow by throwing 
the dirt to both sides. After ridging the land in the fall it is allowed 
to stand until spring without further preparation. Before planting, 
the ridges are usually harrowed with a spike-tooth harrow. Then 
