Parsons on Dry Farming

188 pp. A collection of articles written by E.R. Parsons and published in The Dakota Farmer, Aberdeen, S.D. during 1912 and 1913. Originally printed serially in The Dakota Farmer. Includes photographic plates. CONTENTS: Introduction; Deep Plowing; Reasons for Deep Plowing; Practical Work of Deep Plowing; For and Against Deep Plowing; Cultivating and Mulching; Subsoil Moisture; Dry Farm Fertilizing; Packing and Fallowing; Roots and Subsoils; The First Year on a Dry Farm; Keep Track of Moisture; Dry Farming for Profit; Suggestions for Dry Farmers; Seed Selection and Corn Breeding; Listing Corn on the Dry Farm; Winter Wheat on the Dry Farm; 35 Years with Dry Farm Alfalfa; Amber Cane, Milo, Kaffir Corn, Broom Corn; Rye, Oats, Barley, Emmer, Speltz, Dry Land Flax; Potatoes on the Dry Farm; Beans, Peanuts, Millet, Peas; Vines, Root Crops, Sugar Beets; The Dry Farm Garden; Dry Farm Horticulture; Forestry in the Arid Regions.