Show I I Peppa Peppard d Seed Company Suggests to Bean ean Growers The following l letter tt r. r B t out oat by P Peppard rd Seed is worth your study on seed seal bed p Roosevelt elt Utah M March 10 19 1930 1834 TO J I TO Associated Bee Hire J D Beau Bean l GrowT Growers Grow Grow- ers c I T To Grow Successfully I Choos Choose S Your Tour Land 1 f Carefully re Uy And Abd Prepare It Thoroughly Select et 1 ground that is Isell well ell drained and not alkali and see that It can be Irrl irrigated ted without flooding or wash In lug ing Plan to ha have c your seed bed ready about the last of May fay Ia irrigated cultivated cal cul and warm so that when you u put your seed Int into the ground th the e beans benns will come rl right ht without up ir ir- and start growing If your land was in grain last Ceason sea sen- season son and plowed last fall it Is s going goin g to be easy to prepare If It it was in grain last season Reason and and 1 not plowed last lust fall chances are that the thc sooner you can plow it the thc better I The land laud will work up easier easter if you r harrow Immediately dint ly after plowing If If it was in alfalfa last Jast season an and md d plowed 1 last fall full chances are that tar the the- t next best thing to do is s tot to disk it i thoroughly and then plow it again just as us soon as you rou can If it is is' still in the sooner Boone r you JOU can get get et it plowed the more time tim you on will have haye to work It After plowing plowing plow in ing and as soon coon as ns the thc alfalfa i is dry and dead a n go good d disking will pu put t land laud In shape for another plowing This plowing will wil put the alfalfa a al alfalfa falfa falta roots and md crowns crown down down out 6 t the thc way war of drills and and anti i where they will do the ground some some som good after they have ha time to rot On tin any of the thc above e sorts of 1 landor land or on New Land after the plow plowing in g is finished and the thc humps levels levelled lc 1 off and the bc hollows filled up so that tha you yott ou can expect to irrigate nicely t are ready to start in ill to make a real seed bed T Levelling or or floating crushes clods and fills up small depressions rind and holes and compacts the soils s iI Disking chops up the clods mixes the soil soU and compacts the dIC deeper sleeper soil iI and mulches the top soil These two operations wilt will usually l nl make ake the land laud I ready to mar mark off and irrigate te IJ By making making- your corrugations Jeep cheep and nud then irrigating lt without f filling J in them more than half hulf full you ou will I store a n lot lot of water in the subsoil without melting inciting down and baking the surface mulch Then Theu after after a few days you jou ou can cross ross cross harrow halow t to fill m up uj thc the furrows anti and save the s surface J mulch mulchand and the moisture for your our crop Soils and water can cau get warm to gether and weeds ts can start Then lf Ir ij pe fore actually actually planting more barrow barrow- harrow harrowing arrow hi lug ing and working will kill the th the weeds ls and make the mulch still better JiO so that you ou will ill he be putting your our crop cropin into into in in- to a 11 clean moist warm seed b bed d with a mulched jd surface for i your ur beans to come through Wo We 0 wish you OU success Bring Bling us ur y your mr pr problems JJ J J. J J G. G SEED SEE CO COMPANY |