Show SEEP PLOWING BIG BENEFIT factor in carrying moisture over winter for the prodoc of good crop r it Is wonderful how little moisture our harder soils in sum aner no matter how abundant the rain tall may be and even long experience with such soils hardly prepare ono for their dry condition when one goes orth to plow the moisture falling so late this acason thero has not been so much evaporation and in some soils I 1 have nobBer ved the downward penetration been much greater than with a areat deil more precipitation in the summer months and it Is likely to endure for come time giving an opportunity port unity for deep plowing it Is not necessary here to urge deep Is suitable to all conditions the point Is Is it not necessary to our hard land especially those to be adry farmed 7 merely as a matter of carrying over water in the soil and for the entrance of later rains and snow Is it not tho one most dominant factor in prodoc ling crops Is not tho question of mak ung use of our denser dry soils one of bringing them more to the porous condition of a sandier soil which ab borbi all the rainfall and a great deal of snow before it evaporates in our sun and dry atmosphere if the answer Is yes then the am of plowing deeply when con dislong dit long are favorable as at present must not be overlooked unless ve have command of deep tillage tools and power to operate them and even with these a less expensive result will ite claimed than jn a dry time I 1 have not the data and do not know wen that it exists to show at what gravity overcomes the pumping slower of the sun to draw moisture the soll but it Is at no great depth so long as the soil Is kept stored and are not formed through which the water can evaporate roughly speaking I 1 should say that when moisture has descended eight to ter inches it will with any reasonable toi mulch either from good plowing or continue in large measure to descend and that short of six inches it will be very apt to ascend in vapor and largely disappear no matter how carefully we try to retain the dust mulch on large tracts of land theoretically the dust mulch will it perhaps also in practice so long as no cropping interferes with culta but for practical results it is extremely desirable to get the mols ture down as far as possible from the buns attraction which raises it to the surface to be carried away by winds aind evaporation in an atmos phen which will wah us almost always ab moisture this same moisture when it has do ecender to a depth of eight to twelve inches lies as a poultice on the sub iroil and softens it and descends yet deeper whore in its original state the was quite incapable of absorb ing it in the small quantities which lay on it tor only a short time and ihus wea get a penetration of moisture to five six or more feet and have ac something permanent raulte different from merely wetting alve or six inches of top soli by light plowing lit la true that crops will use tha leture but its effects on the subsoil w remain tor it has become absorbent to future rains and snows |