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Show PROPER HANDLING OF-SOILS Ground Should Be In Place to Be Handled Just as Place of Wood Should Be In a Visa. ' Doble and eandy soil will stand plowing In dry weather better than a clay loam, which la apt to form fcrlquet which are a long time breaking break-ing down from weathering. The beet clay loams need the most carefal handling nd the use of diaka In some form Is very much to be preferred pre-ferred In dry weather, as they crumble jibe soil better than mold boards, says jlhe Denver Pest Harrowing after plowing la all right, but It will only accomplish a certain amount of work If the aoll haa been turned over la Jarge, hard chunks, for the harrow teeth cannot and do not reach deep (enough. A disk will do some things after plowing that a barrow will not but It will only cut the chunk la places, and If continued there, on account ac-count of their lessened weight and Stability, will be turned until pushed aside and avoid the pulverizing action ac-tion of the disk. You lessen the also of the bulk you have turned over, but you are a long, long way from a floe tilth from which the rootlete can suck sustenance In the shape of soli soup the only form of food they can aealml-lato. aealml-lato. Where plowing la cheap the best condition will be remedied to some extent by getting a heavy soli mulch oo top that will both absorb and retain moisture, but the proceea Is slow and much of the energy of frost and snow will be wasted In correcting a bad physical condition which should be exerted ex-erted In paring down already fine par tides, Capillarity haa bn Interrupted Inter-rupted and there are large airholes In which roots find no abiding place. Good plowing le the first and absolutely abso-lutely essential operation to the largest larg-est crop that can be grown, and poor plowing will lessen the results of all after effort Handle soli when It Is In place to be ttandltd, just as you work a piece of wood while In the vise. Pulverise your aoll that you mean to turn under while It Is on top and accessible, not after you have turned It under eight Inches or a foot out of reach. Disk It and double disk It, get four or six Inches or more of It worked from the top, a In the case of a potash field, which always al-ways gives heavy yields. Don't monkey mon-key with the proposition tackle It with your common sense. Lay out what you want to do, and do It If you never get the field plowed this fall It will be better plowed next spring than full of airholes and spacea the winter falls to settle through the subsoil sub-soil will lose the good effect of aeration. aera-tion. Hut you will get It plowed be cause when thoroughly disked rains will penetrate It that would do little good on atubble or that would be evaporated evap-orated by a day or twos wind and sunshine. While your disked field w, continue to turn and break beautifully from mold board to furrow slice, and with one harrowing you will be near the perfect seedbed ready to start when spring comes. With plants that catch tight bold and even In raw spring weather establish themselvea to make the big crop. At the worst you can turn your ground early enough next spring to bring the soil Into fine shape, and not be farming on the top of a lot of bumps In which nothing but winter grain could find any foothold. |