Show Farmer Beats I Nature Starts Plowing Early Melts Snow by Putting Layer of Dirt on Top of Icy Crust How John Cook weather observer ob observer server at lIeber Utah learned of or ofa ora a method to hasten the thc melting of oC snow enow upon his farm and thus was able ablo to commence spring plowing I two weeks earlier than the neighboring neigh boring boeing farmers la Is related In a are re rc report port Mr 1 Cook has just sent to the lie local weather weather- bureau Sprinkling freshly du dug soil over overlie the lie snow crust Is the he method which Mr Cook reports has as worked so advantageously ad in previous years a and d he lie announces his Intention to follow fonow the lie same plan this season When hen snow now from two to three feet thick covered the land Jand and tho the sun seemed to be unable to the crust t which was hard har 1 enough to sustain the lie weight of at a aman aman aman man at this season fifty filly years cars ago Mr Cook says he lie went out in the morning with a bucket and spade He lie goes oes on I dug through the snow into the thc soil and scattered the soil like I 1 was waR sowing grain I could cover coyer about five acres each morning In lit n the flood year ear we wc had three feet feel of or snow and It took until Ia 1 May to vanish Well Ven I gotto got gotto gotto to plowing May lar 7 aJ and my neighbors neigh neigh- hors bors two weeks later hater |