Show CREATING DUST MULCH do not attempt anything with clods in the fall iraln and melted snow permitted to run down and water can be con served by a proper dust mulch soils not all alike it is possible in the semiarid semi arld sec alon of the country and on light soils in any section to form such a dust mulch as will favor blowing espell ally in dry time and more particularly on lands that are somewhat worn and somewhat deficient in soil moisture it Is utterly impossible for any per son to make suggestions on the man argement of land that will apply indal lubly to all kinds of land under all sorts of weather conditions and in all sections we would not attempt to do anything with clods in the tall says wallace s fanner we would not bar row ground in the tall but would leave it rough tor the subsequent trees ing and thawing will break up the clods while the roughness of the land will give the frost a better chance to get in its work as well as catch snow and rain where land Is light where Is it ex posed to high winds where experience teaches that it la liable to blow we would keep the prevention of blowing always in mind it Is difficult to know just how to handle these lands it they are harrowed till the surface is a alne dust there la every opportunity for the soil itself ta blow away if they are rolled with a flat roller they aro more likely to blow than if left loose the disk roller or a packer while compacting the soil leaves it somewhat rough and prevents blowing we saw one year in the state of iowa an entire crop of wheat from ten acres of land blown out into the roads the danger Is much greater in the ld country clod formation can be prevented by first disking then plowing and harrowing directly after wards so that clods have no chance to form no matter what agricultural papers a man may read or how many books or how great their general value the farmer must study his own farm and his own conditions and feel free to go directly contrary to advice no mat ter bow good it may be under widely differing conditions from his you cannot treat sandy soils the same way you do clay nor can you treat the light soils the same way you do the heavy soils in that same sec i alon nor can you treat either of them 1 as you would gumbo soil in the valleys of the humid section in the ld section the soil cleavage la entirely different from that of the humid sec lon in the humid section the strata are BO to speak horizontal in the ld section perpendicular professor ten eyck who bad long experience in the kansas dry belt ex perl ment station once said to us that he bad the best results by listing the soil deep late in the tall and leaving it rough so that the rain and melted snow could run down and the water could be conserved by a proper dust mulch in any section where land Is liable to blow we would be careful about using the harrow more than is necessary and would under no circumstances use a smooth roller the more vegetable matter ou get into that soil and therefore the more root fiber the less it is likely to blow there aro boils that are now considered good which it they are kept growing corn tor a few years until the vegetable fiber Is decomposed cannot bo well held even by ft warranty deed |