Show EVENER FOR FIVE HORSES effective manner in which horata are used on gang plow herewith I 1 submit a description ol 01 how 1 use five horses on a gang plow with two of them as lead team writes a farmer in bleeders breeders Bre eders gazette make an evener of ash or oak two by five inches and 20 inches long from clevis to clevis giving the lead team the 12 inch end and the eight inch end tor wheel era fasten an old neck yoke ring or something similar to the end of the tongue and run a log chain through S i hitching five horena to a gang plow this to A on the evener using light trees for the lead team it Is desirable to use a three horse evener for the wheelers have a hole tor the clevis in the center of the evener and the center horse will pull against the outside ones such aa evener may be bought at any ample ment house the clevis connecting this three horse evener with the 20 inch evener at C should be a solid piece double clevis which will hold the three horse evener in place and not interfere with the chain if horses weigh less than 1400 pounds each it will pay to use five horses on a gang plow with them I 1 can plow six acres a day easily whereas with four it Is hard work to lay over four acres it Is the last straw that breaks the camels back and I 1 am in favor of unloading several straws another method of using five borcea with two in the lead Is as follows make an evener five feet long giving the outside wheeler tour feet and one toot tor the two teams that work against each other with chain and pulley GREEN only legumes add more to soil than elements taken from it green la the plowing un der of any green crop for the purpose of getting fertility and decaying vegetable matter into the soil it it Is desired to add fertility then some crop must be plowed under that has in it some fertility that it did not take out of the soli for it Is evident that it the plant plowed under has in it only ehg fertility that was taken out of the soil nothing Is gained BO far as fertility is concerned so far as wo know UP to this time only plants that have pods have in them at any time more fertility than was taken out of the boil even those plants do not have more fertility than what came out 0 the soli unless little knots are found on the roots which knots are known as nodules in these nodules are lit tie plants called bacteria which take free nitrogen gas from the air and make it into a form of nitrogen that can be assimilated by the plants such plants when turned under en elsh the coll by increasing its nitrogen content this must be understood by every person that raises a crop to turn under it Is doubtful if it pays to turn under other crops as in that case the only gain to the soil Is taj humus and in many cases the soils have in them enough humus and do not need increased humus content moisture and mold destroy corn the drying ol 01 corn tor seed indol ea but a few simple principles if the corn Is to bo exposed to a freezing temperature it must be dried out suf so that there will not be left in tho germ enough moisture to ex and rupture the cell walls when it swells in the freezing process it it Is not to be exposed to freezing temperature it must also be dried sufficiently to prevent mold starting this mold destroys the germ in an other way sending its mycelium into it to eat through th cell walls and destroy the very substance the safe and sane farmer the farmers with pork and hay and wheat and cotton to sell were not caught under the load when the upset took place in wall street the real wealth of the land Is still intact the farmers kept their heads and the coun try Is safe remember the cows after ou have been in the house a long time shut up away from tho fresh air you feel the chilling winds same way with the cow keep them in as far as ou can on these raw days |