Fritz Massernann farm, Washington, Missouri -. 4/29/38. The farmer is plowng under a heavy stand of sweet clover . Its average height is knee-high. This field will be planted to corn.
Fred Wehrenberg farm,R,ock City, Illinois - . 4/20/38.
A terrace is being constructed with a Parsons Whirlwind terracer belonging to the camp. This is the fourth round .
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The proper method of plowing terraces to maintain their shape and height. The second cut is being made of the first round of the plow on the top of the terrace.
This farm belongs to C.F.. Reverud of Spring Grove,Minnesota.. The products are from a one-acre TSI area. Thirty-nine percent of the basal area was salvaged and thinned . Twenty percent of the basal area consisted of dead trees. Eight cords of good…
This farmer, on the R and C and Mulliner farm in Northfield, Minnesota is plowing his contoured corn strip. The plowing stops at the alfalfa field. Note that the farmer raises his plow and does not plow through the grassed waterway.
In Clayton County, Iowa, contour planted corn was effective in reducing erosion on this relatively short slope of 61 per cent.. The corn was very clean showing that it is possible under proper conditions to .keep down weeds in tilling;; contoured…
On the Sarah Vincent farrn in Shenandoah, Iowa,. this buffer strip is so located that it is on the most erodible part of the slope. It was seeded to alfalfa in the fall of 1935. Its purpose is to slow down the
water. It also serves as a contour.…
