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Show jLEdJ THE? 02I5O WS KEEPl BUSY! v. tPljc qucsCionr of .fall ;plpwingf has M so often bc&n dijscAislfcduiYthcsc col- M umns that it seems almost' uripardon- H able to mention it again. . Our Justi- M ficatio.n however lies in the large M amount of stubble land found all over M the state in the spring of each year. M The. great question here is -jthc con- M sc.rvation of moisture. Any,mcthocl, M iby means of which as much moisture M &s possible can be retained, in the M soil will of course be, welcomed by M the "dry" farmer,- the man who dc- H pends wholly upon the natural pre- H cipitation.. To, the irrigation farmer H it is especially desirable to use nM - M available moisture since it saves the M expensive and destructive process of H irrigation. Fall plowing aids materially in :on- H serving the moisture. This has been experimentally demonstrated. A;,fc,w' H years ago while the writer was at the Agricultural College samples of 'soil were taken from two fields adjacent H to each oMicr, one of whicXwas fall H plowed, the other spring plowed. Moisture determinations made on H &' -V B July 19, showed an average of 4.46 inches more moistufiLc in hc ,first five feet of soil for that plowed dur- B ing the fall, Thcdiffcrcnce amount- H cd to more than one-third of a year's H rain and snowfall at that place. At the- time of seeding, Octobrr j6. H samples were again taken from the H same fields this time to a depth of ten feet, Here a, difference was found H of 7.47 inches or more than one-half H of a year's precipitation in favor of H fall plowing. While fall plowing H more difficult and consequently more expensive yet the amount of moisture saved and the increased yields more H - than compensate for the extra ex- pcu&c. H The plows should be kent, busy I from now. unt'l freezing weather and may the time, soon, come in Utah - when there sliall aofc be a single acre of stubble lend go through the win- tcr season., ,, |