Show II 11 6RIaIhrll ry Jr J 4V L plowing In the Fall I do not believe that plowing the fall can he recommended t I r all soils nnd localities l but + do believe it should bo more I j nerallr practiced by nil farm I than It Is I always do all of the alai I ill I plowing that I possibly can es y to eclallY whero I intend to put In corn e7 r the coming spring It sod Is turned Iihe In the fall the amount of plant Y drt txd I will bo greatly Increased for the Th p the next summer 1 have also short lotlccd that thero are not as many cutworms grubworms and cornroot forms the next spring as there were the spring before if the ground id plowed la I the fall Every pest that lie farmer can get rid of ho knows it uBe 1 tor his own good to do so Tho surface of fall plowed ground Is drier In the spring at planting time thnn pound not so treated and some farm in might think that It does not con Lain as much moisture but I find that n I does The rainfall is enabled to getter penetrate the subsoil which al ion the surface of fall plowed ground 10 dry more rapidly If you have not tipfrlenced fall plowing try It and Iou will find that fall plowed ground W a drier surface and contains more moisture at planting time in the spring than ground which has not been plowed In the fall I believe In locall des where there Is much rain during the winter It Is better not to harrow ie fall plowed ground In tho autumn specially where there are fine clay jails that run together nnd pack down It we have a dry summer wo will find that fall plowed ground will yield better crops than spring plowed oundJ S Underwood Johnson Co III In Farmers Review Food of RootTubercle Bacteria r As yet our scientists know but little lit-tle regarding the great world of bacteria bac-teria I that has been opened to us in this generation We have supposed that the tubercles on the roots of pod bearing plants were supplied their ilirogcn by the bacteria which took It from the earth and from the air When lime has been added to soils the bacteria have In many cases been tore vigorous but this was Judged to s be due to the neutralization of acid by the lime It may be however that these bacteria actually use lime and nagnesiumas a part of their food A French professor H Flamand has teen making some experiments in the levclopment of tubercles with water wa-ter cultures The different kinds of bearing plants behaved very differently dif-ferently Thus vetches refused to produce tubercles unless they were supplied with magnesium while both retches and beans showed they must have either lime magnesium if they tere to produce tubercles Potash gaits and lime salts stimulated the development de-velopment of the root tubercles Now the question Is do the bacteria require re-quire these elements for food Scales on the Farm So far as possible farming operations opera-tions should be reduced to an exact science The old ways of feeding by guess and oven buying and selling by guess should give way to weighing and measuring everything In the feeding of grains and ground grains Males rather than measures should be depended upon Different kinds of grains vary greatly in their weight and If a man tries to measure them out j > he is sure to give more at cne time than at another Some of the brans on the market differ exceeding ly In this respect Some of them are very light being hardly more than the hull I of the wheat while others are quite heavy and consist largely of middlings If a man has scales hon ho-n very easily feed about the same amount of food each day and there lore become better Informed as to the requisite food required to produce a certain effect Scales can now be bought at a very low price and a few dollars invested In scales will give gOOd returns Indirectly for many Tears to come Vitality of Seeds The practice of sprouting Heeds I between payers of blotting paper does not give absolutely accur ate results except to show what Wr cent of tho seed will germin ate under those conditions If a lot of seed be divided Into two portions and > one lot be placed between sheets at Wet blotting paper and the other be toM actually placed In the ground tho lat ter lot will show a much smaller per ntago of germination than the oth er It Is ono thing for a seed to sprout under i i Ideal conditions j It Is quito nn other for seed to prout under hard COnditions IIhen the which obtain frequently seeds are covered with dearth and are PUt In al varying Sewage Farms large I In many cltlps countries or Europe the are disposing of their I ellalo A i h y mean of sewage farms I Pars I largo Is part I of the sewage ° fay J llliil ° 8ei1 of In thin Way The i tte t feniii results are excellent and the use tertlllty of Vs so readily available for plants that some of the sot age farms SON I produce three crops of com thin n garden trucl per year Such gS ns I aeli lettuce grow well and sol the e There Is no Prejudice against vesetables because they aro Wownonh n flrat feared on the sewage farms It was at I afraid of m that people would bo est I disease germs but the cl03 kct t Invest disease 8ators were unable to do sense germs In the products iii |