Show srar aa a SUMMER FALLOWING VALUE Conserves Moisture for Next Crop and Readily S plies SoliD With Needed Humus It Is very Important how the work of summer fallowing shall be done The necessity for the fallow may depend de-pend on several contingencies It may arise from the foul condition of the land from the necessity that exists for conserving moisture for the next crop or for readily supplying soils with humus where this has been too much depleted This means that the method to be followed will vary some what with the object for which the land is fallowed Some take tho stand that it Is un wlso to summerfallow Under some conditions it is unwise Tell that to ho grower of winter wheat westward from the Missouri river In the Dakotas Da-kotas and ho knows that to follow such Instruction would in n great measure prevent him from growing winter wheat Tell that to the grower of winter wheat in tho Dig Bend country coun-try and around Walla Walla in WashIngton Wash-Ington and ho will answer that ho cannot can-not farm successfully In any other way It is true nevertheless that the absolutely bare fallow should be avoided avoid-ed where tho necessity does not cer thinly exist for it for tho reason first that no crop Is secured from the land for that season and second that It is wasteful of tho elements of plant food especially In a season of much rainfall When tho summerfallow is resorted to mainly for the purpose of destroyIng destroy-Ing weeds in very many instances this may be done about as well by I growing a crop that will bo cultivated aa for instance corn When fallowing fallow-Ing the land mainly for such a purpose pur-pose the first plowing ought to be dono before any of tho weeds mature While the subsequent cultivation will depend much on the kind or > kinds of tue weeds to be fough it will usually jo better not to plow again but to work on the surface subsequently with the harrow or with some form of cul Jvator supplemented by the harrow Tho plan of plowing the land but once and then allowing It to lie untouched till many weeds grow up again and produce seed is simply vicious It means a reseeding of the weeds which the farmer has sot out avowedly to de stroy When tho object Is mainly to conserve con-serve moisture to aid in growing the crop that follows it is very Important Impor-tant that the land shall be plowed at a season when moisture is most abundant abun-dant because of the case with which such plowing may bo done If tho land thus plowed is loft lying as turned by the plow it will soon lose Its moisture down to the bottom of the furrow slice It will also allow tho escape of moisture in the subsoil below in proportion to the time that it Is thus allowed to Ho undisturbed There are several ways of doing this as by using a heavy roller or a disk or a plank smoother ending In each instance with a stroke of the harrow It is greatly Important that this shall bo dono at once as soon as the land Is plowed The frequency of the bar rowings that should follow must be determined by the judgment of tho farmer These should be frequent enough to keep that dust mulch on tho land In this way the double purpose pur-pose is served of conserving the moisture mois-ture and of keeping the land perfectly clean II When humus Is to be put into tho soil quickly usually the plan that sows winter rye In the autumn Is a good one This may be burled before coming into head Subsequently surface sur-face cultivation may follow or a second sec-ond crop may bo grown on the land for burial as buckwheat rape millet or spring rye If only one crop Is buried and if it has been sown the previous autumn winter wheat may appropriately bo put on such land butt but-t two green crops are buried in one season sowing must be deferred under un-der northwostern conditions until the following spring |