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Show I PLANTING DRYLAND Soil Is Harrowed and Disked Four or Five Times in Season. Whenever Seed Is Too Thick It Will Draw Sustenance Out of Ground and It Cannot Mature so as to Make a Crop. The question has been asked, Is It best to plqw dry land In tho fall or the spring? I sny, plow In tho fnll overy tlmo. I don't enro how dry tho ground Is, It matters not. If rough, tho lumps must bo brokon of course, but It Is all tho hotter. I leavo tho ground rough all winter nnd tho snow nnd ruins como and fortlllzo that soil ami pulvcrlzo It. As soon as spring comes I tnko a disk with n harrow bo-hind bo-hind It and lap tho disk and harrow half way. Wo go lengthwise nnd hs soon ns that Is done turn crosawlso and do tho samo. In n Bhort tlmo wo hoo tho llttlo woods coming up and wbon thoy can bo soon nlcoly I put tho disk to work ngaln nnd tho harrow. har-row. I Bomotlmos harrow and disk It four or flvo tlmos In tho BenBon, writes Qeorgo L. Fnrroll In Field nnd Farm. Wo do not allow weeds to grow on tho ground. Wo cultlvuto nnd from tho twenty-fifth of August until tho Inst of September, just boforo wo bow fall wheat, wo put tho lovoler to work and lovol it over so thnt wo can boo to an Inch whero tho drill has run and wo do not iiiIbs any of thorn. Wo ennnot afford to miss nnd wo sow 35 pounds to the aero nnd If tho ground Is very rich we sow n llttlo moro. But I innka my tenants Blgn n contract In writing that thoy will not sow moro thnn 40 pounds to tho ncro and IT thoy bow over a bushel thoy havo to pay for tho loss In crops, becauso It will not prxxluco half as much as that sown thinly. Whonovor sood Is too thick In dry farming it will draw sustenance sus-tenance out of tho ground und It can-uot can-uot mature so as to mnko a crop, I will rolnto one circumstance to provo this. I uaod to sow ryo and n Danlshmuu moved Into tho neighborhood neighbor-hood about a mllo away. Ho camo to mo and wanted to know If I had somo ryo to sell for sood. I said, "Yob, sir, plenty of It." Ho said, "I want to buy 15 bushels." "All right, Blr, you enn huvo It." Ho said, "Will you tako work for It; I havo no money ?" I said, "Yes, air, I would rathor havo work than money." "I want 15 bush-elB." bush-elB." "How much can you bow In a day7" "Twenty acres." "All right, sip, you are ust thq. man I wnnt. I will glvo you "tiireo buiiliolH of ryo a day and board you for fivo days and In thnt fivo days you can sow 100 acres; that will glvo you IB bushels of ryo." "All right, sir, that's good pay; I'll do It." He camo along nnd 1 had tho ryo nil sackod ready to sow. Ho camo down nnd Buld, "You have not got near" enough ryo hero to sow that ground." "Yes, I havo." "How much aro you going to sow to tho aero?" "Half a bushel." Ho said, "You don't know nothing nbout raising ryo." I said, "I don't protend to know much about It, but that Is all I wnnt sowed." "Why," said ho. "In Donmark we sow throo bushels to tho acre." I said, "I want you to understand wo nro not in Denmark now, wo aro out woHt. Can you sow n half bushel to tho acre?" "Ych, I can sow n peck if you wnnt it." Ho did It and did It well. I paid him his 15 bushels and ho sowed Hint 15 bushels ,on his own flvo ncros. About tho middle orx Intter end of April I was going past ono day nnd ho called to mo to como to his house. I drove up nnd ho said, "I want you to come over und look at my ryo." I went out nnd looked nt his rye back of tho house and barn and It stood about four Inches high und Just as thick as It could be 1 said, "That looks nlco, don't It?" Ho said, "I am going to bIiow you how to ralso ryo this season. I looked at yours and thoro wus ono sponr up hero and 'an- |