Dryland Crop-Rotation and Tillage Experiments at the Colby (Kans.) Branch Experiment Station (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Great Plains of northwestern Kansas, southwestern Nebraska, and east central Colorado.
The native sod of this area consists mainly of buffalo and grama grasses.
Winter wheat is the principal crop, occupying a larger acreage than all other crops together. This is also the main barley-producing sec tion of the State. Until recently, corn was grown fairly extensively, but it is being largely replaced by grain sorghums of the combine type. Forage sorghums are grown on a limited acreage on most farms, mainly for roughage.
The soil is of the Chestnut group, now classed as Sherman silt loam, though formerly classed as Colby silt loam. It is representative of the prevailing types of this region. The surface soil (0 to 7 inches) is a brown silt loam with about 60 percent of silt, 14 percent of very fine sand, and 25 percent of clay.2 A buried soil, much blacker in. Color than the present surface soil, occurs over the area ranging in depth from almost at the surface to 3 to 4 feet below the surface. On the station its depth below the surface is about 2 feet.
Where the surface soil merges into the subsoil, there is a compact layer of heavy silt loam ranging in thickness from about 2 to 8 inches. This layer contains varying quantities of carbonate concretions. Be low this is the parent material which is a loose, mealy, unaltered loess that extends to a depth of many feet.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book encapsulates decades of research and practical experimentation on dryland farming techniques in the Great Plains of Western Kansas. Within the context of an ambitious program to combat environmental concerns, the author provides a detailed historical and technical description of effective crop rotation and soil conservation strategies. The book's insights into soil moisture storage and strategies for increasing crop yields while protecting the land from erosion remain significant to this day, offering valuable guidance to farmers and agriculturalists in similar regions worldwide. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780260924407_0
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