Show GOOD SOIL TILLAGE LESSON by pulverizing top of land two or three inches escape of moisture Molt turo Is 1 effectually prevented A practical and successful southwestern man recently made this statement to the interstate Fa fanner riner 1 I had a hold of ordinary upland soil eoll and undertook to plow it about ten tell days after cutting a crop of wheat I 1 found it too dry to plow I 1 quit trying and got out the disk I 1 disked the surface of that hold flold but of course could not go deep two weeks later f went in ili with tho the plow and found that I 1 could do a pretty good job ot of plowing though there had not been A drop of rain in the meantime the statement was waa questioned but it was a fact when the attempt to plow was made the soil had dried out on oil account of tho the nu numerous cracks mado made by the effect of the sun and the wind these cracks quickly extend as aa deep as the soil has been plowed after they ey are for formed nied tile the moisture la Is permitted to escape through them aud and la is carried away in ili the atmosphere so while there may be plenty of moisture mol mois aturo turo in n the subsoil the top soil becomes so BO hard that a plow will not lot work this was the condition when ahei i our friend went in with ills his disk uy pulverizing the top two or three inches lie be stopped the bracks mid pores and pro vented the further escape of the rising moisture hut but the moisture continued to rise through tile the lower sections of the cracks and by call capillary lary action being prevented from escaping into the atmosphere it collected in the soil just under the pulverized surface and soon boon soft softened enod it so that it could bo be plowed this lesson Is one of the most val abble that can be learned la in soil tillage it Is a theory that works out perfectly in practice of course there must be moisture in the subsoil otherwise though the tops of the chimneys or cracks may be closed the disking will not avail much for there will be no moisture to rise and consequently none to stop this illustrates the very reason why stubble land should be disked diske d immediately be hind the binder as the sun and wind quickly opens up the cracks and re leases the moisture in the top soil and thou then that in ito iro subsoil unless this Is done |