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Show FOR THE FARMERS Suggestions to Dry Farmers by 0. t. Parrel. The time is close at hand when every farmer who grows alfalfa and fall grain should sec to It that they put their discs and harrows to work, especially those who own and operate arid farms. Just as soon as the soil is dry enough to work without clogltig, put on your disc, set It at second notch, put a weight on It besides the boy driver, and disc It lengthwise, also have a team with harrow behind the disc and work the ground down good. Then turn crosswise with disc and harrow and vvoik It all over again. If the crop Is thin, It will thicken it, and If weedy It will destroy tho weeds. After this Is done, make a frame i or 10 feet long, III! it with good long brush then put a heavy plank upon It for the boy to ride on and run It over the Held to break all lumps and to line the silt -race soil. This conscives the moisture, moist-ure, also will save one or all waterings on Irrigated land, and make hay that Is worth very much more than alfalfa that has been Irrigated. Some people advocate sowing a llt'lo seed upon alfalfa fields that are thin, but this is only to throw away the seed, as It will not grow. My advice with such thin crops Is, plow them up and sow grain upon the laildtwuor three seasons, then ie-sow It to alfalfa by plowing the land eight Inches deep In the fall. Disc, harrow and level the land early In the following spring, sow It with drill about two Inches deep with unc-half bushel or oats and eight pounds of alfalfa seed, then as soon as oats arc In tho milk, mow the the Held close to the ground and g't, a fine crop of feed, one that win viu-ry jou. Alfalfa w-iuld pay the tanner much better if It was plowed up and re-sowed every six or seven years. Always have one Held sown one year befoio you plow the other up so as to be suieof having feed for the coming winter Next work after the alfalfa liclds are well worked over, Is to run jour harrows over your winter wheat both ways, -so as to break up the baked surface, sur-face, and kill all young weeds as soon as they start This allows tlic fiesli air lo get to the roots and gives them fresh life and vigor, llut be careful j before starting the harrows that the teeth arc turned backwaid so as to break the crust, and avoid pulling up the cracked soil with wheat attached to It. If dry farmers will attend to this they will get from one to three bushels per acre moie wheat, and farmers who Irrigate will save one Irrigation Ir-rigation and make more vvheat. Farmers, try it and be convinced, The next business or great importance import-ance to all our farmers Is to see to it that they meet and appoint good farmers to lecture each week upon the best kinds of seed wheat, oats, barley, potatcs and other seed to be sown, the best time to sow them and the best time and manner of preparing prepar-ing the bed for all kinds of crops. 1 find that there Is not one farmer In live that knows how to prepare the seed bed and plant potatoes and attend at-tend to them, and do It In a systematic manner. Some farmers think they arc doing Hue If they raise two or three hundred bushels of potatoes per acre, while irthey attend to the business busi-ness In the right way they could easily raise live to stx hundred bushels per acre. My advice to all the farmers is to meet together often and regularly, and teach each other how to attend to dllferent crops In a much more economical and sjstcmatlc manner, and thereby protlt each other very materially. These farmer's assocla-tlons assocla-tlons are organized Tor- the special purposo or learning from each other how to raise crops of all kinds and dispose dis-pose of them In the most proUtable manner. Every member who possibly can should attend the monthly meetings meet-ings In Logan tabernacle at 12 o'clock and learn from the professors many things of great Importance to all. Very respectfully, (iko. L. Faiihkm.. |