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Show TILLED GROUND KEEPS M0IS1 Fact Should Encouracje Those on Seemingly Very Dry Sod Land-Keep Land-Keep Shallow Mulch. Moisture follows tlllnge to an extent and often under tuvorable conditions to a very considerable extent. This ban bet n distinctly proven by the records rec-ords of the Montana substations, where the Increase of moisture from almost none to enough to muture 8 fair crop has not been unusual. Tillage also net ms to take the wild out of some if our driest western land and enabled one to do much better bet-ter with tries than at first. Touching upon this point, the Denver Field and. Kin in says: "The dryness of nod or breaking compared wiih wll tilled 'and In not Kent rally known by newcomer Into ttie shortgrass country. It Is for this reason principally why tho Huf-falo Huf-falo Hod In not ho good for trees, filfal-in, filfal-in, garden, etc., an land that ban been dec ly and thorotiKhly tilled We have to K) throiiKll Ii process of civ-il:ziiiK civ-il:ziiiK the noil before It will take kind ly to cultivated ctopH. The nriillty of sod has olti n been very diHcouriiKlUK io newcomers for Judging; from the lack of moisture in that the only land tiny have they art apt to think the country drl r than it really Is. To lllustiate this, one need not ro farther farth-er than tl i k i4 1 ti k down Into the Hod ot a roadway in any country tlurlni; a pro!. inn. d dry spell mid d KtxU'.K. Into the earth in the nearest plowed or cultivated cul-tivated Ii-Id The lirst will be found as dry uti a bone and baked no It can ! hardly be i tu irat. d with a f-harp spade, wl.l! the cultivated soil, though possibly not a rod distant, will be ltit.se and moist. This fact bhould en cotiriiK" those on seemilii'ly very dry sod land to know that when once 11 is dieply and well tilled, particularly j if pains be taken to keep hc stirliu e worked Into a shallow mulch, many mote films the moisture will be avail able than diirlim the Hist ear or two utter cultivation. In favorable treasons trea-sons tries do very well put out in sod Intnl. mid gardi t:s make a veiy " t'onriiK,liK show Itu oil back H'! t inn. but more otti n tie or shrubbery plantiii;; ami cnnleii makiiiK "ii n w land is very difctniraKiiiR. It tuatly always pays better to Prsl i;et the land tl.or-oitKiily tl.or-oitKiily woik.d K'ood and ib ep before I attemptli'K niueli in the e lin. s mid we I would liot overlook roiIKh lall .low il;g I for ait.vtl.iitn." |