| Show IMPORTANCE OF THE HARROW Many Benefits Derived by Use of This Implement Immediately After Plowing Soil For many years now the writer has advocated in public addresses through bulletins correspondence and otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise the advantages to be obtained after spring plowing by following tho the plow immediately with a harrow We fear that a great many farmers underestimate underestimate underestimate under under- I estimate the great Importance of conserving conserving conserving con con- serving all of ot the moisture in the soil that that It is possible to retain there writes Lewis A A. Merrill l in Desert Farmer It is not only true with tho the dry farmer but is equally true with the man who expects to use irrigation water for maturing his his crops The farmer who irrigates should keep in mind the desirability of using tho the least amount aunt of water with which he ho I can safely mature the maximum crop To 10 accomplish this he should Immediately immediately imme Imme- harrow his ground after plowing plow plow- ing It Is desirable practice when only one team is engaged In the field to unhitch unhitch un UD un- un hitch from the plow sufficiently sufficient long before the noon hour to harrow all of the ground that has been plowed during during during dur dur- ing the forenoon and ald th the same practice practice practice tice should be observed in the after after- noon Unless one has made a study of the action of toll soil moisture it is almost impossible to conceive of the rapid loss of moisture from evaporation evaporation tion from the soil soU where it is left un un- harrowed In conversation with a farmer he complained that his soils were so dry diy that in order older to germinate the crop it was to irrigate the tine land The irrigation was followed b by a dry wind the soil baked and dried out very rapidly and he felt that It would be necessary to irrigate the ground within a few days This might all be avoided if the plowing had been done at the right time and the land harrowed harrowed har hare rowed immediately after This question is not of such importance importance tance on land that is plowed in the fall as a matter mattei of fact fall plowed land should be left rough and rowed during the winter but In the spring time just as soon as the landIs' landIs landis land landis is Is' sufficiently dry to permit of the use of a harrow it should be kept har harr rowed This method retains the moisture moist ure gives the proper and is an aA indication of proper soil culture |
