Show ADVICE TO ARID FARMERS written tor for the deseret farmer by y geo L farrell farreh right night now Is the time to put our harrows to work upon your you r fall harrow it both ways and it if it is very lumpy and tough rough run over it 7 with a good heavy roller first then with your harrow which will break all lumps and aco loosen en up tile the soil kill all weeds and increase the beld of grain from three to five bushels per acre farmers try it and be convinced I 1 advise any farmer who doubts doubt this to attend to one halt half of his field as abose directed and leave the other halt half untouched and I 1 promise him to be fully convinced to roy my theory in the future I 1 had ai af one time one hundred acres of rye which was very thin in the spring and the sunflowers sun flowers were starting vezy thick in tile the rye 1 I therefore hired a neighbor to harrow it loth ways and lap the harrow halt half way then corne corce to me and I 1 would pay him bim he worked hard fifteen days upon it and when he be got his pay he said all the rye I 1 ever got from that one hundred acres I 1 could put in my eye as it was all torn up and not a spear to be seen well I 1 said I 1 am determined not to raise weeds he laughed and said you will not raise weeds or rye all was torn up dut cut there came a nice rain after and then the rye came up fine arid and I 1 threshed 2780 bushels from the hundred acres while twenty bushels of rye per acre was considered a very fair crop I 1 relate this to encourage new beginners to have courage and not fear to harrow their field grain in the spring but remember to slant the teeth ot of the harrow well back so as to break the crust and loosen the soil about the roots of the grain as the they y enjoy breathing th the good fresh invigorating vig orating air of spring just as much as we enjoy it |