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Show ROTATE CROPS ON DRY LAND Proceie of Frequent Tillage During Crowing Beaton to' Form Mulch ' It of Importance. (By VHOF. J. H. PUKITEftn. North Dakota Da-kota Agricultural t 'oll.-if.v Successful dry) land cropping require re-quire freipient cultivation of the land the dust blanket either a an Incident to the cultivation of corn, potatoes or root crops or without a crop, and the adding and conservation conserva-tion of humus In the soil. Tho conservation of moisture In dry laud farming Is an Immediate necessity. neces-sity. The fertility will last for some time, and the weeds and insect pests are Items of future contingency, but moisture conservation must begin when the noil Is turned. Moisture a crop must have to produce at all, and It U a prime tiecesslty on new as well as old land. Cultivated crop will bring about this result In many districts Potatoes and root crops must be struck from the list of rotation crops In some districts or special provision must be made against the drifting ol the soil. Corn may not be a success In all dry land districts, and there may be some sections which cannot spare the moisture necessary to produce pro-duce b cultivated crop. Where such conditions exist, tbe dry land farmer must adopt the summer tillage methods meth-ods so successfully followed In the Canadian northwest. A process of frequent tillage during the growing season, which will maintain a constant con-stant blanket over the entire tur-face. tur-face. Is a necessity In dry land cut ture. There Is a special harrow wltft spade-like shovels which loosens tbt entire surface to a depth of three oi four Inches, which Is especially adapted adapt-ed for maintaining a soil mulch. Tb machine Is made In sections like harrow, and can be fitted out for a two or four horse tenia ns the ownei may desire. The system of planning a varied cropping system for each Individual field Is right In principle and a safe rule In practice. I'eeullnrly enough It Improves the aoclal conditions it a community. That mixed farmeri remain longer In a neighborhood than those who grow a single crop la the universal experience In this country Mixed farmlitg gives a longer tenure of service for the hired help, and 'thus enables the farmer to secure a 1 letter class of hired men and women liirlda the community of the floating, cileless hobo help and brings In tlllr stead a class of men who think will they work, and that alone will (.'.'.! their efficiency In producing re-fU re-fU in a term of years. Few farms are run to the best ad -'Vintage which do not have two or Jiore systems of cropping on them. The small fields near the buildings Jtf be rtjrf"id tQ murj better adva J tuge by having them planned to suit the live stock needs than upon a basis of producing largely marketable crops. On the other hand, It Is wasteful waste-ful to put them Into a system so permanent per-manent as not to take advantage of the heavier supply of fuanure and humus hu-mus which tbe live stock add to the soil so regularly. The potato pntch should be changed about through some minor rotation, for example, so that scabby potatoes will not be the rule and so that the potato crop can have advantage of the manure where pasture crops have been fed off and where leguminous crops have been grown. Grass and forage crops In a rota-. tlon are. In my opinion, prime neres- titles. A system should be deviled j which will produce tnaxlnirn crop when the field la sown, as the fixed charges against a field are very little j Increased for a heavy crop over those j for an average crop and the net re- J turna may be doubled. j |