Show LAND AFTER FTER SMALL HA HARVEST VEST I Effort Should Be Made to Make Best Possible Use of Scanty Soil Soli Water Agricultural Agricultural By Dy ALVIN KEYSER Colorado tural College Harvest Is either now being finished finish finish- ed or is in progress in this season Beason of short water supply both under irrigation and on dry land an effort should be made to make tho the best possible use of a scanty soil water If small grain stubble is allowed to stand after harvest without treatment treatment treatment treat treat- soil soon ment the surface of the dries out and bakes so fio that plowing plowIng plowing plow plow- ing can scarcely be done If at all Of occasionally come to course rains soften this crust but these cannot be absolutely depended upon The formation of a n crust can be prevented by thoroughly double disking after Is well the tho binder If the disking done baking baIting and cladding of or the surface will rarely occur Land so treated may be plowed and fitted for seeding when unfitted land cannot be plowed Such land will also take take- up rain or Irrigation water much better than land The few experiments a I writer made some I years ago on this feature of soil man man- The land was disked after the binder and plowed about August 1 side I A similar piece on the opposite of a foot 16 roadway was not disked The plowing was done at the same time No rain fell from July 1 unil August 31 Fr From m August 31 to September September September Sep Sep- 5 three Inches of or rain fell The land that had been properly tended tended tended tend tend- ed was well wetted by this rain and fall crops started and grew well The land was wetted only about six inches not enough to make It possible possible possible pos pos- sible to thoroughly break down the lumps The good effect of Judicious diskIng diskIng disking disk disk- Ing will be seen on the next crop The effect Is to prevent the so soil l getting get ting Ung into very bad condition |