Dry-Farming: Methods and Practices in Wheat Growing in the Columbia and Snake River Basins
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"This bulletin deals with the dry-farming methods practiced on grain farms in the Pacific Northwest, where the rainfall is less than 15 to 18 inches annually, but it also contains advice helpful to all farmers of that region who practice summer fallowing. Its purpose is to show the possibility of increasing crop yields in the dry-farming areas by using improved methods and to discuss the practices which have been found most advantageous. ...The highest yields have been secured by plowing in the…
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Date:
1927
Creator:
Hunter, Byron, b. 1869
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