Show BENEFITS OF FALL PLOWING by loosening up soil water can got get into it more easily plow when the soil la Is moist by W C catmen north dakota ex pertinent perl ment station plowing Is the roost most common work 0 on n the farm and it la is also the most moat important it the plowing le la not done right no amount of work with any other tool can make it right plowing lootens up the soil boll and turns new portions of it up to bo be acted on by the elements so BO that the plant food that it contains can be made available in III loosening up the soil the water can get into it more easily and more of it will got get in in a given time in case of a heavy beavy rain tor for instance much more ot of h 1 will soak into a deeply plowed soil than I 1 nto into a shallow plowed one the other day the writer was in a portion of the state where the crops were suffering tor for lack of moisture yet a few days before a heavy rain had fallen the plowing being shallow it could not coak in quick enough so BO most of it flowed oft off from the land and into the gullies the land should be plowed when the soil eoll Is moist it if it Is dry the pulverizing action of the plow Is largely lost when tho the good housewife makes bread she does not work the flour after she has added the water and the yeast she kneads the dough plowing the soil boll when dry would be a good deal like kneading the flour instead of the dough the best time to plow to is in the tall fall and early at that as this will give some of the effect of the summer fallow in case the soil is dry in the fall and moist in the spring better results may come from taj spring plowing |