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yield per bushel of seed used! Wheat was turning out at the rate of 12 bushels per acre, hay at 1/2 to % ton per acre. Sand stone rock was playing havoc with already worn out equipment.
Bernard, Mrs. Maier, Dorothy and Mary picked up and piled rocks from sun-up ‘til sun-down. Mr. Maier helped during the cool of the day as his head injury prevented his staying out in-the hot sun. The rocks were used to fill gullies and build a brooder house, a laying house with wash room beneath, a cellar with meat house above. By this time (1938) the strip cropping was established. Water was no longer running down the hills making gullies deeper; instead gullies and galls were healing over and were beginning to produce some; water was being kept in place.
All this while as far as Maier could possibly go on lime and fertilizer was a ton and 200 pounds phosphate per acre. Lime was applied first and phosphate next. Manure from the seven cows and two mules was hauled directly from the barn to the crop field. Two and a half acres were
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