| Show LESSONS O S OK Oh A DRY YEA l I t Whenever a I season presents presenta mat mal conditions which agriculture It W will Ill bo be found bound to ln Inculcate al altu tu valuable i lessons which n form td hf Han small degree at lit least leaHI the lining of ut the cloud Tho The that Id is past Is no exception to this general yule Mile nil In the period of lI meditation which tho the winter usually for tor ft tho rho farmer It would he be no bad Idea hlen to t devote seine pome 1 to this point pole not In III the tho regret or repining ins for but for tie the foals of f If it II will furnish h In it till the In n a very el largo large portion of ot the West the tho th past season Reason has been unusually dry 1 It was not nol so ra toad bad hl In the tho outcome as 1111 was iv a nt nl one ono time feared because ml like the tho bumblebee arc usually biggest l when sullen born Ill III luck or 01 mischance I Is hardly ever 11 as all disastrous as liS It 1 Is going Colli to be Still It was load bad enough In this title Instance undo and while It II would wo ld be bea beIL hi hin a n Ion long task to 10 extract from It II all 1111 the thi teachings that It legitimately contains a n 1 reference to Otto ono cor two of ot the marl obvious ones may ulay ma not be amiss 1 1111 The Th corn crop for tor example was w aR affected Jill lII the WilY way from froll almost complete annihilation lotion lation to 10 little or not tot ut lit all nil In many Instances It was seas never permitted to tan nn lUre lull but was tuna rut cut up tor for fodder In nIb on ors a IL good goo 1 normal no III crop croll Ill It tit would be e too loo much to say that eSl Extremes wore 1011 to 10 be found In ht Ihu th Ih sahib s t locality but It Is Ia n a fact that Iha In same Mme section somo nten lIlen had ha a n quarter gun lei of a n crop ClOP sonic some had half bait a n crop cO hurl had 5 6 per pel cent and som soar as II never having had bu n a bet better better ter lor crop crap Practically this wide wll range rang occurred In iii the tho some same locality and un urn under der lieI conditions that thai were practically Identical ns nA to moisture We dont pre pretend pretend tend to know nil all the elements that con constitute can tho why why and yet there th r must have been reasons 1011 lOllS Wo We au how ever that In III many cases antes the difference dei depended very pr largely upon UllOn difference elico In thoroughness In o the methods of oC the tut tanner farmer In Ut thin the preparation pr of the land for Cor It Iii IH easy ruay to see sec that If tt II a Held hl were Ilore ploughed and left full of lit plods Clods cl when the planter was put lout on the results of conditions In that thai I held Would probably be he very Eor different from atom what they th would be hI In n II held field had been he n harrowed af after after ter tot ploughing null had hall been reduced to perfect and on Oil which th till harrow huno had bpd III been kept running after planting photos until the corn ton 1011 10 Inge e to tn make It U sate safe ae to run nut It 1 longer longOr In 11 the tho first In Instance stance the ih adverse conditions would be he vory vm 01 y likely to rJ 1 destroy the Held moil and tile owner be he thankful If hit h gut got ti lI little fodder from It whereas wt In III the Ih second mac the tile corn would have the advantage of at having been the heat best possible Ilo chance Ill 11 II co so for far as or preparation tion tl n of the lilt ground waN as concerned that the the permitted U Pursuing the subject there limn follows follow the after t cultivation ion tion As Au 11 knows 1 win who i aye iy tiny any nn attention to method of urn corn nil rud lure tuns till there are Hueh methods s n All ail tend to 10 till nil the Ih moisture that the Ill rend land does does get Irel while there are III others that deem specially to rid rill they thu soil gull nf f Its Iho lurl hv by h just JURt a n tie rap rapIdly 81 Idly nn no In Ili a n season en fn tike UVe that that has Juat JUHt dosed closed lIo d optic one nn ran con on fee r r that with lIh the musts fame tAli occurring nt it the thu saute lime uric one Held with the for Cot former or Tier mar tt ol ought might well while idle the Ihl other thai loath hAll born been subjected to o n the latter might nil fall utterly What Is iP h here re said Bald Is III Intended lo to be br IJ suggestive merely but hut If It during dining the winter will tel farmers who ho have had hod one aliI de Ill dotree tree Kree of success with their erne crop will the he subject n a little careful nud In III connection with till the condition of d a n neighbor who load n ii oh le II mel Tr ter r of success U II the reason renan for the th dIr dif difference ference will probably lit lie found nm nn and tiC any be Ill away ns os our one of If the tho lea Ics II leavan van which the of ut a 1 dry wa MOil fn fl furnishes Wo WI e nil like to have hn u II I tIp l for tor the things that Ihl befall tm pa pat Tf Tr t We wr have tilled this thIR year U It Is en M MI y I Mini nd to 10 paille per par Jut sn to ea ay Il that It was Wall the tho hat 11 fI It Well to eo o In n It Re and nd yet et In many III the thc failure bl not have hae been so 80 complete or PI tight might perhaps not flat even eDn have occurred nt nl I nil till If we had not ourselves In some someway way war contributed to It Metropolitan nd tad n Rural II m |
