Show definition OF DRY FARMING 1 merely deep tillage and surface cultivation ti to retain the moisture in the soil coll it la Is what e everybody v who ever culli fated a garden as it should bo be done I 1 lias bas practised practiced ever since boyhood I 1 says farm stock and home dry farming arming Is merely deep tillage and surface cultivation to hold the moisture where it will be forced out through the stems ot of the plants A man who will sit down and study what he be does in his garden through the tha L season will learn more about dry farming than nil all the farm paper articles can tell him in seven years first it if ho he wants a good garden he ha puts plenty of well rotted manure on it this manure furnishes humus and supplies plant food to the soil it makes tile the soil porous so that it wll will lold bold more air and more water than ground next to it it if he wants to make EL a real good lob job of gardening he will put a disk onto the iana lan before it is red or plowed and will lo 10 loosen sen up the surface soil as much as possible then lie brings out the old plow and gets billy to ride the beam so as to turn as deep a furrow as possible when he Is making garden the far fanner mer has no fear that deep plowing is going to hurt the crop it is only when he Is putting in wheat for instance tha th such fears come along to annoy him after the land Is plowed he goes to work and d disks isk a and harrows barrows and planks it down making the subsurface as solid as he can in order that he may have a good seed bed and this is not all he keeps at it working more and more compact until the whole garden is in as fine as possible lie he is not especially afraid about its being too late in the season he just naturally prefers to let tile the land warm up before he paa in his garden stuff then comes the cultivation before the vegetables show above the ground the wheel hoa is set to work and the rake follows follow 6 all summer long working odd minutes he keeps ahead of the weeds and covers the ground with a fine dust mulch the result of this work la Is in many instances very satisfactory garden aass and it Is just the kind of work differing only in degree that the successful dryland dry land farmer must apply on his bis extended acres |