Show farm ng ree res brains success in dry farming la is not tor for the shiftless or the indolent all farm ing ag requires brains to make it profit able it involves hard mork a and plen ty of it dry farming Is largely a mat ter of conserving the moisture from y ear to year but this does not pre bent sent insuperable difficulties by proper in i argement a tilled field can be made a re senoir through the accumulation of df moisture beneath the surface the moisture which falls as rain or mom must b made to penetrate its surface and when once imprisoned its escape by evaporation must be pre vented tillage is the means by which both these objects may be attained breaking up uv the soil in the first place by deep plowing in order that the tha rater may sink into it and stirring the surface so that a mulch of loose powdered barta may keep the channels at df evaporation closed |