Show SUMMER FALLOW IS FAVORED farmer who tried to get around this failed to get much of crop some exceptions the indian head station though by no means in the drnest part of can ada has for years led in advocating summer liberally to accumulate two years moisture for one yeara crop early rightly tilled sum mer fallow at this station showed as high as 35 bushels of wheat to the acre while right alongside it yielded less than ten on land cropped the year before says a writer in dakota farm er still more striking differences were made at some of the substations sub stations and the one great gospel we heard from indian head and from there all over western canada was dry farm ing by summer one third to one halt the land under cultivation As a rule the man who tried to get around this failed to get much of a crop to be sure there were exceptions to this certain seasons and in certain slightly more moist sections but they were exceptions one year with another in these parts even this same way of handling soils in our own semiarid sem larid parts Is being practiced and advocated by many al though our scientists tell us that thus unnaturally exposing the dark surface of the soil to the beat of summer suns and winds Is ruin to it in the long run and that this unnatural way of acau moisture getting rid of weeds and resting the soil should not be encouraged where there la a possible way around it this we firmly believe right here many come in and ad corn either for grain or fod der rape when there Is moisture enough to start it etc etc but a whole lot of people among them some of our experiment station men say corn tor ce takes an enormous amount 0 moisture from the land as much as almost any grain crop and ask how in common sense we can conserve two years moisture for one years crop by any such hubter tuge some of those in charge of the work in south dakota tell us that while the moisture goes out of the soil little slower with the corn as it takes a longer time to grow and ma lure that when it is matured we alu and the moisture has been taken this looks reasonable sure enough but our experience and observation go to show it isn t so that the forest condition shaded soil cool air lating at night and other times in some way retain or actually late moisture and that the rightly handled cornfield will actually show is much sometimes slightly more moisture in the soil than bare sum aner tallow right alongside of it just as there is more moisture in deep forests under the leaves no matter jow much moisture the heavy foliage has taken to grow than in the bare field near by |