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Show some of you in your work; for, after all, each of your individual problems must be solved by yourselves. Increases Fertility and Water-Holdin- g Tbe amount of plant growth Is do OF MOTION WATEB Capacity and Brings Plant in a decided measure upon pendent Food to Surface. Followed With Deep Plowing, the amount of moisture, within cer tain limits. In the soil. The supplying It la a fact that tbe Drag, Will Do It. and maintaining of thle moisture In soils of the arid regions are as a rule By U M. WINSOR, Utah Agricultural an amount which will bring the great deficient In organic matter. This deCollege. est return is, then, our problem. ficiency may be overcome to a certain Fully Demonstrated That Considerable The water found In soils la of three extent the common of three by any Portion of Rainfall Can Be Conmethods of adding organic matter to Oregon Short Line Railroad Demon- kinds: served and Carried Over Into the soil, which are aa follows: (a) By stration Train Lecture. 1st. Free water or the watei Next Year. green manures and crop residues; (b) According to many historians, Irri- found between the soil particles of a by accumulating In pasturing; (c) by gation la one of the oldest applied saturated soil. IHy J. If., WOUST. North Dakota applications of farm manures. arts; one writer even claims that It 2nd. . Capillary water or that which Of the methods mentioned, the first la made a distinctive feature or thin fllra around each, ol How deep and follow the plow with the Is heldtyn-Is the most Important and least practhe middle soil of a moist but not status a of barbarism. Ancient will The particles ton drug. solve drag more uiuUturo tuau will get into tlie ticed. It consists mainly In the grow- Egypt became the granary of the saturated soil. This Is the water uaei of a crop which Is plowed under world as a result of natural irrigation by the plant In its growth. soil from molting Hiiowit. Uesides wa- ing 3rd. Hygroscopic water which la ter thus concei ved Is where. It la need- while It Is green and succulent as It through the overflowing of the Nile; most readily at that through Irrigation the water held by the soil but which, ed, iiiKteud of oil the burtuce where It decomposes Chuldea, Assyria, stnge. will evaporate speedily. and Babylonia, located aa I hey were in all probability, la not used by the Leguminous crops, such as alfalfa, in a practically rainless The question la aoiuetiiucs raised clover, country along plunt. field pens nnd vetches., are the valley of the Tigris and EuphSliull we practice dry fariuiug when Only aqueous or water plants can mafor usually recommended green rose to enviable prominence and grow in a soil containing free water, rates, there id plenty of raiu? Most tissur nures. They have the special power dominion. The Chinese, the Romans Hence our problem is confined to the edly. The time to conserve moisture of obtaining their nitrogen from the and the Moors, all Is when there In moiHture. A farm made use of Irriga- rcgulution of the capillary water only, air through the agency of bacteria Iner remarked to me the other day; "1 tion. and to the conditions which govern the tubercules on the root. habiting In have' got iho moisture ou my farm this we find plant growth. evidence of country The characteristic advantages of it as practiced by the ancient Inhabdown to a depth of more than three green manures to There are three ways by which soli folthe aa soil are fuel already." itants of this continent and later In moisture can escape: That farmer's idea Is lows: 1st. By sinking into deep soils out 1. exactly riht. lie la conserving moist Increases Its fertility by the tbe gardens of tbe old mission fathers ur now for next year's crop while bla Numerous of reach of the plant roots, ana escap large amount of organic matter which of southern California. neighbors are allowing the moisture It acquires. other examples to prove the Import- ing by under drainage. thai has recently lalleu in abundance 2nd. By evaporatiug from the sur ance of Irrigation as a factor In 2. water-holdinIncreases its ca to i;o Its usual way, acording to the -building might be cited; but to face. paclty. laws of chance. Next sprlug bis neigh th Anglo-Saxo3. race the art had its 3rd. By through the plant bora will plaut their wheat and other would Utilises soluble plant food that birth but little more than half a cen itself In a passing process known as transotherwise from soil the escape small grain and depend upon tb ago. This seems doubly strange piration. 4. Drlngs plant food from the low-e- tury clouds to furnish moisture as the grain we look Into history and find Each of these losses ran be gov when soil to the surface noli. way ueed it. This farmer will get that at this time over 138.0OO.0U0 acres erned to a certain extent. The first just as much raiu from the clouds as of land bad been reclaimed by Irriga- by making lighter applications of they and will, in addition, have a RAINFALL RETAINED IN SOIL tion in different of the "world. water at each Irrigation. The second, parts large quantity of water stored up In Perhaps this can be explained on the or surface evaporation, can be checklb subsoil to nourish the crop, ahould to Store Approximately 2! theory that tbe Germanic peoples ed by cultivating tbe surface suffia dry spell occur during the- growing Possible ncnes of Water In the Upper have always written history much cient to form a dust mulch, thus closseaaon. And I hat dry spell is very apt Ten Feet of Ground. faster than they have read it. ing up the opening of the capillary to tome. 1 w ill venture (bat this par However this may be, the first at- tubes which form when the surface ucuitr tarmer win have a li'.g crop D. W, FREAR. Colorado Aarlcul to re- soil begins to dry out. And tbe third tempt by the Anglo-Saxon- s uext year whether his neighbors do or (By ) tural claim the arid wastes of fund was or transpiration can be checked by not. if they get a big crop, be will Actual experiments show that tn made In the summer of 1847. In tbe the addition of soil fertility or by orHel a bigger ou, actual field water capacity of arid Salt Lake In a tie bana of dinary cultivation. Thus, tbe last two by valley It has been fully demonstrated that soils varies from 14 per cent, for can be governed by the simple operaMormon we them To owe pioneers. a considerable portiuu or the ralulall very sandy loam to 18 per cent for a tion of stirring tbe surface after an the of birth the modern art of Irrigal any one year can bo conserved and clay loam, with an average of about tion, and the working out of the co irrigation. cairied over, tn the soil, for the bene- - lb per cent. The greatest water ca The Is prevalent among as 7.e have It In farmersthought system operative li of next year's crop. Where the av that a certain amount of pacity wou'd be even more. At thli today. practice water must be used by a plunt in orra,;e ralulall is 18 inches it should rate every 12 Inches tn depth of sol The Irrigation contag.on soon der to produce a certain weight of dry be uii taty matter to carry four or can hold from 2.25 to 2.65 Inches ol and became not only the gov- matter. As early as 1699 Woodward five inches of autumn rainwater over water, or an average of 2.45 Inches spread of found that it required less water to the winter for tbu next season's crop. At this rate It Is possible to store ap erning factor In the Four I.. i lies of water repiesents ap- proximately 25 Inches of water In thf Mormon towns, but In the colonizing produce a pound of dry matter In a of the entire arid west. plant growing in a rich soil where the proximately 350 tons of moisture per upper 10 feet of soil. This Is fronj plant food was evenly balanced, than Irrigation as an art falls Into two in to two times the an ire a suihVlent quantity to nourish one and one-halone of opposite nature. Later. In li e grouii.g crop during weeks of pro- - nual rainfall over the better dry divisions: 1S78, a German found Investigator t, 1st. as a and Irrigation 1 am co li vi primary need that farming sections. Therefore, It sboulC diought. that the yield of dry matter was 2nd. as a art. Irrigation be la and secondary by nitan of suitable cultivation, which possible to store one or twe greatest where transpiration was Ry the first we mean the using of least, lie also found that the enrichl.nludis deep plowing, the bogle of ) ears' rainfall In the soil, by using Irrigation to take the place of cultiva- ing of the soil enabled tbe plant to drought will be lorever dispelled. proper tillage methods. tion, fertilization, and o on; and by produce dry matter with less water. There is absolutely no necessity for a Now tbe question may arise in your the second we mean the using of Irklugle crop lailure in North Dakota Culture of Alfalfa. water merely to supplement minds: Why should cultivation deou account of drought. The fault Is rigation The culture of alfalta can only b tbe natural The latter crease the amount of water actually not w ith the soil, nor with' the climate, precipitation. used by the plant? Cultivation pernor wi;b the plants: H la with our sys- successful under careful and tntellt la the correct use of irrigation. If a mits the air and sunshine to enter the. gent culture, or. In other words, high farmer uses dry farm methods tem of farming. As long as we apply class along sell more readily, causing a conseIn tbe dry rartnlna with bis farming. can-sohumid methods to semi arid conditions, of t practice Irrigation be quent liberation of plant rood, which we may ex;eei repeated crop failures, sections alfalfa Is now successfully go far wrong. is equivalent In effect to the addition Under tbe grown. Irrigation system or partial failures that will materially One of tbe grave mistakes made by of the food artificially. the crop Is a sure and abundant one our early irrigators was the Indisthe profits which farmers should In the Atlantic That cultivation actually decreases states tbe greatest re of water used by the reailxe from their business. turns have only been secured by tbon criminate use of water, with the re tbe amount is shown In tbe nnults of explant It requires approximately seven dolsult thousands of that acres once of careful preparation ol productive land have been rendered periments conducted at the Utah exlars per arte to grow a crop. This In- following heavy fertilizing and best Into station In the vegetation cludes Interest on Investment, cost of ground, swamps, and alkali periment method of harvesting and feeding tht beds. veritable house. Certain tanks were planted to Tbe lamentable of feature wear this and of tear machinfarm seed, crop. question is the fact that with our corn. An equal number of tanks con ery, labor, etc. lly adding one additionodd years of experience some of taining the same kinds of soil were sixty al dollar's worth of labor to each acre, our are still following these left bare for a check on the evapora farmers Small Oregon Eggs. thete is little question but that the Forty-eigh- t erroneous and are ruining tion from the surface. methods, An Oregon farmer collected 18 eggs average prof) is would be doubled. In not only their own farms but those of hours after each Irrigation and then other words, as much profit should be so small that they could be packed their unfortunate neighbors, by a too every week, half the surfaces were four-increalized from the one additional dol- In cylinder Dhonoaranfa liberal and careless application of cultivated while the other half wero lar's worth of labor a Is now real- record box. They were laid by twe water. This is especially true in some left bare. Table No. 1 shows the reised from the seven dollars' worth of large hens of the mixed breeds from of the newer sections where a more sults. TABLE NO. 1. Plymouth Rocks and Hhode Island or lews heavy application is needed unavoidable labor and Investment. for the first few years. The troub'e Consequently, If farmers would de- Reds. Aver-Is that they do not 'set the brakes" Cultivation vs. Transpiration, vote oue third of their land to tbe until It Is too late. Once a new sol! age for Three Years. arrowing of corn and alfalfa, neither of baa been moistened below the ranee which Interferes with the time and la l'riin1 waw-of the plant roots It neds a great deal Klndsof owl t. plant Cultivation bor employed In farming wheat, and I tn less water than It required to'bezln prrdttSoil. put tbe one third more labor, thus JJt 'Irymsttrr the actual amount for th ma with, 4 s hours after marie available, on only as turing of any certain crop win vary 2:2 Irrigation many aeres of wheat, they would grow only with the season, cultivation, and College Then Weekly Loam more wheat than when they spread so on being the same. This being the f.3 None rase It Is possible to make an econtheir energies over tbe onetbird largomical distribution of the water at er area. 4 hours after one's distxisal and use it In a way 428 The corn and airalfa fed to live Irrigation Fample which not be will detrimental to the Then Weekly twk would tniiure them large addiClay in a way soil nnd to In result the None tional Income, and one that Is cot rreatest returrm to those concerted often adversely Influenced by climatic 4S Is This hours one of prime import after question No amount of washing will rid over 82 conditions, while the fertility deposited tire lo the farmers In this arid region Irrigation pon the farm resulting from feeding churned butter of milk Then Weekly and too much stress cannot be laid Clay F.xrlterncnt and confusion are not upon It. tbe corn and alfalfa to live stock None 715 would vastly Improve the productive-tie- conducive to the best milk producSituated as we are In a section tion. where snow As the soil in each set of tanks was of tbe soil. Corn and alfalfa usufall Is very the rain and A money making combination Is tht low, we are dependent almost abso alike, and as all other conditions exally can be attended to when tbe Intest needs no care, ttnm distributing cow and the sow. Give tbe latter lutely upon Irrigation water to cept (he cultivation were Identical It crease our aerlc ul tural possibilities necessarily follows that tbe reduced tie labor more equitably throughout warm skim milk. farming lands are almost, nnilm amount of water required to produce the fe;jf.n. The only way to absolutely know a Tb Ited within the border of our states, a pound of dry matter in the cultivatAnother thing. .hock threonine; I cow. Is to weigh and test tbe milk but there Is a decided limit to the ed pot was due to the Motivation and generally bsd biiaine. for the reason thoroughly the entire year. water supply. The ques'ion then. Is It effects. that s!l cannot thresh at once when Tbe best time to salt butter Is be rot how much land have we? but There then, a douhle reason for the eraln U ready for the machine, fore It Is taken from tbe churn, and bow much water have we at our dis- cultivatingIs, your crops. You not only ? hold the moisture in the soil by preall, who cannot threnh just as it Is gathered in granules. posal coni'intly The State of Utah represents an venting evaporation from its surface, early stand a gfod change of having It requires grain as well as rough their Injured In the shock and neps to produce tutter fat, and butter area of over 2,n) square miles, of but you make It possible for the moiswhich only l.'nn square miles are ture retained to trodu'1 In some Ina'ao are hinder'! from plowing until fat at present prices Is what pays, 1 noo square stances more than twice as much the grain tbre!hf Fully half fairying has crowded out sheep mile orand less than sliehtly under 1 2' per cent plant growth. This means that i lie farmer are Urn hindered from r&IMrg In Australia. The Australian the of the total are actually irr'rited practice of cultivation you can by make lowing ratty, many of them being butter Is In god demand In Kuroe Is In a similar condition.! your Irrigation water cover Just twice tfdaho rotnpelied to postpone plowing operaThe cow must have pasture or I's What we need then most of all is a as much ground tion a until tbe following spring. tlet-- r equivalent. This accounts for the distribution of tbe wser In such a There marked variation tn the to stark the gralll as soon aa Et many soils and the great popularity of way that the rreatest r'ilble re amounts isofa water required for difto and start plow. turns can be obtained The problem ferent varieties of plant, soiling crops. for etarn- It Is self robbery to take a dairy Is not difficult of soltitlin If we only ple. all other conditions being einal. cow through the winter when she apply ourselves to a study of condi- the potato plant requires more than Charcoal for Little Chicks. tions as we find them and to the inand one half times the water to The greatest problem with chicks In gives milk only five or six months formation available. In the short two a pound of dry matter that to produce whole out of the year. brooders is bowel trouble, but If you time at my disposal I hope to open the corn plant requires. cow's If the with tallies pedigree will feed charcoal every day tbe trou op at line of thought which will help. (To be Continued ) Me will quickly disappear, ('ovided the milk pail, then It Is consist foundation or a poof other faults are remedied. For little ent. and a good Her View of It. Abduction. chirks which teed It at once. It should one, as tbe case my be. Selection Is absolutely necessary In Teaser What Is It that binds n fee mixed In their food In small quan"Ttixhy has published a little boo build up a good and makes os better than we of verseg which be calls 'Children of tities until wome effect is seen and order to feed and rnus-t cull closely are by nature" My Brain.'" then the quantity moderated to a reg dairy herd. One work-OnIn other lines of e "A bad title To my certain knowl-edc- e "Corsets, air," piped a wise little girl lar portion each day, Charcoal I a here as well as cannot Judge the size of the f eight Chicago Socialist. corrective and not a medicine It abbe has kidnapped seven of fbera " New York Bun. sorbs gases and promotes d'geetlon feed for the calf by the vigor of Its la to be this If measure How the to appetite. Keep Busy. f the food. tbe calf It apt to be dangerously overStart ing News. Jack What do women do In their fed. Cbibs? "The captain swam ashore," reprt-e- d t Many of the details In butter makFeeding of Poultry. a certain newspaper, describing a Clara Think about th men. What Tbe atjcrf-aafu- l of poultry ing can only be looked after by et do the men do in their's? fJing wreck, "as did the s'ewardesa Much of It the must of be learned upon the perlenre. ependx largely ability Jack Try to forsret abort the wo She was Insured for tl.'.ooo and carto work. 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