Show SOIL READY FOR IRRIGATION J II Farmer Should See That His Field Is la Smooth on Surface and Level All I Ridges and H Hollows By E E. B n. n MOUSE HOUSE Colorado Agricultural College The thing of first Importance Is to see to It that the high spots In the field are removed and that the 10 lor spots are filled In other words ho should see that the surface of his field Is smooth and here Is where the ordinary or Binary farmer Carmer falls Calls down After Atter plowing plowIng plow plow- Ing ant an harrowing his field he perhaps per perr haps runs a drag over oyer it and then seeds it leaving ridges and hollows hole holec and knolls When he Irrigates the field it is s necessary for him to almost drown the low spots Jots in order to wet the high ones Water will often oCten be found from one to two feet deep In places In the field If when the plowing and ban harrowing owing are completed tho farmer Carmer would take a l scraper and take down the knolls and fill fiU up the depressions with wilh the dirt thus removed In the course of a year or two ho he would change the field from one hard to irrigate to one exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- easy for Irrigation He would find find that practically one half the I amount of water that he was compelled com com- compelled to use In the first place is ample ample am am- plc after the tho field has been smoothed In this way More than this he be will willfield willfield willfield field that his crops yield better for when an excess of oC water is applied to the low spots the crop at these places In the field is always Injured It is la lanot not an exaggeration to sy spy that as much damage damge to the crop Is done don by forcing the thc water up to the tho high spots as would be done by allowing these high spots to suffer from lack of ot water A word of oC advice now fen foi the present present pres pres- ent season will soon be ups us As you yell Irrigate your fields spring and summer stake the high spots ts driving the stakes down sc Be that t they ey will not Interfere with harvesting harve a and d mark on these stakes about how much too high the land is at that poi point t then after the crop Is harvested In the tho fall see to It that these hese high spots are removed and at alter after tel plowing smooth the surface surface sur sur- face Cace with great care sur-I sur |